TechEd North America 2012 Sessions

Windows PowerShell Crash Course

Jeffrey Snover, Don Jones — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 19:30:00 GMT

Windows PowerShell v3 is here, and it is delivering on Microsoft's promise to make nearly everything in Windows manageable from the command-line. Are you finally going to learn the shell, or learn to say, "would you like fries with that?" instead? Join PowerShell author, columnist, trainer, and MVP Don Jones (one of the world's most well-known PowerShell experts) in a crash course that shows you how to use the shell's key features. No scripting experience needed—you'll use the shell as it as meant to be used to accomplish real administrative tasks with just a few commands. Also, learn how the shell can teach you how to use itself, setting you up for success with the new wave of Microsoft and third-party enterprise products. #TEWSV321

Windows Azure Virtual Machines and Virtual Networks

Mark Russinovich — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 16:15:00 GMT

Join Mark Russinovich for a tour of the features that make up the new Windows Azure Virtual Machines and Virtual Networks offerings. Using demonstrations throughout, he explains the Virtual Machine storage architecture and shows how to provision and customize virtual machines, configure network connectivity between virtual machines, and configure site-to-site networks that enable true applications that span from on-premises to Windows Azure. He’ll focus specifically on features that enable you to create highly available Virtual Machine-based services and how to connect Virtual Machines with Cloud Services.

The 12 Reasons to Love Microsoft SQL Server 2012 (repeated from 6/11 at 1:15pm)

Dandy Weyn, Sean Boon, Thomas LaRock — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 21:18:54 GMT

In this demo-only session, discover 12 good reasons to love SQL Server 2012. Learn about AlwaysOn, ColumnStore Indexing, Data Quality Services, Transact-SQL Enhancements, Power View, SQL Server Data Tools, and so much more in a very demo-driven session. By the end of the session you will understand the key features and improvements in SQL Server 2012, and how they work together. #TEDBI202

Scott Guthrie: Meet the New Windows Azure

Scott Guthrie — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 20:06:00 GMT

Windows Azure is a flexible and open cloud platform for a wide variety of applications ranging from web sites to enterprise and mobile applications. In this foundation session Scott Guthrie will demonstrate how to quickly build and deploy applications using the new Windows Azure features and services including Windows Azure Web Sites, Virtual Machines, and new developer tools and SDKs.

Keynote - Antoine Leblond: Windows 8

Antoine Leblond — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 20:06:00 GMT

Windows Corporate Vice President Antoine Leblond discusses Windows 8, Windows 8 Metro style apps for the enterprise, Windows Store and more. Lots of great of demos of the latest version of Microsoft's flagship operating system.

Windows 8: DEMOS (repeated from 6/13 at 1:30pm)

Brad McCabe — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 07:16:33 GMT

Join as we a take a demo-driven tour through Windows 8. Missed a Windows 8 session or just looking to get an overview of the product? In this session, we take you through the top demos from the Windows 8 sessions throughout this conference, as well as a few new ones.

How to (un)Destroy Your Active Directory: Reloaded

Ralf Wigand — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 07:16:33 GMT

As a consultant with more than ten years of experience in troubleshooting Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) and as MVP for Directory Services, In this session we prepare an AD DS with the top ten errors—all at the same time. Over the next 75 minutes we then fix it step-by-step, while explaining the reason why this happened and how it can be avoided. #TESIA402

Advanced Persistent Threats (APT): Understanding the New Era of Attacks! (repeated from 6/11 at 3pm)

Marcus Murray — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 07:16:33 GMT

It started with Stuxnet, followed by the attack on RSA and many others. During this live session, Marcus Murray gives you a deep understanding of the new threats, how they are created, what they can do to your business, and what it takes to defend yourself. This interactive session contains live demos, drawings, disussions, and more. Very valuable information if you're interested in defending your network from the threats of today and tomorrow.

Jason Zander Unplugged

Jason Zander — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 07:16:33 GMT

What's New in Active Directory in Windows Server 2012 (repeated from 6/12 at 3:15pm)

Dean Wells — Tue, 12 Jun 2012 12:35:19 GMT

The enhancements to Active Directory in Windows Server 2012 affect many core areas of the system including platform, deployment, virtualization, authentication and management. In this session, hear about each of the features, the problems they address, and what’s required for your customers to deploy and leverage them. We delve into how virtualization now “just works”, how we’ve simplified the deployment of Active Directory, and where we focused our efforts in and around the broader topic of management both from a graphical- and command-line standpoint. #TESIA312

Cluster Shared Volumes Reborn in Windows Server 2012: Deep Dive

Rob Hindman, Amitabh Tamhane — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:45 GMT

This session takes a deep technical dive into the new Cluster Shared Volumes (CSV) architecture and new features coming in Windows Server 2012. CSV is now a full-blown clustered file system, and all of the challenges of the past have been addressed, along with many enhancements. This is an in-depth session that covers the CSV architecture, CSV backup integration, and integration with a wealth of new features that enhance CSV and its performance. #TEWSV430

Group Policy Reporting and Analysis with Windows PowerShell

Jeremy Moskowitz, Jeffery Hicks — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:45 GMT

In this session led by PowerShell MVP Jeffery Hicks and Group Policy MVP Jeremy Moskowitz, we discuss techniques for analyzing Group Policy objects to identify potential problems. We look at ways to identify Group Policy settings using PowerShell scripts and third-party tools. #TEWSV415

Advanced Automation Using Windows PowerShell 3.0

Travis Jones, Hemant Mahawar — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:45 GMT

This session showcases the improvements to Windows PowerShell introduced in Windows Server 2012. Demos for this talk include how IT administrators can create cmdlet functionality without the need for programming skills, PowerShell Remoting, Jobs, Modules, Debugging, and Constrained Endpoints, among others. #TEWSV414

Guest Clustering and VM Monitoring in Windows Server 2012

Steven Ekren — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:45 GMT

In Windows Server 2012 there will be new ways to monitor application health state and have recovery inside of a virtual machine. This session details the new VM Monitoring feature in Windows Server 2012 as well as discusses Guest Clustering and changes in Windows Server 2012 (such as virtual FC), along with pros and cons of when to use each. #TEWSV411

Continuously Available File Server: Under the Hood

Claus Joergensen — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:45 GMT

This session provides a technical drilldown into the new Scale Out File Server for file-based storage with Microsoft Hyper-V and Microsoft SQL Server. For the first time Microsoft will have a zero downtime file server solution for both planned and unplanned downtime. This session goes under the hood and gives the technical details on how this is accomplished. This includes the new cluster architecture with the Distributed Network Name, Distributed File Server, and Cluster Shared Volumes. It also includes the SMB 3.0 enhancements along with new Resume Key Filter manager that enable this. #TEWSV410

Building a Microsoft Private Cloud with HP

Steve Tramack — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:45 GMT

If you have been tasked with designing and building out a private cloud for your business or are trying to understand how you can take the best advantage of HP and Microsoft technologies to accelerate the deployment of your private cloud, then this is the session for you! This session provides a technical look into two ways that HP is helping you roll out your Microsoft Private Cloud infrastructure. Come and see how the HP VirtSystem for Microsoft and the HP Enterprise Database Consolidation Appliance (a jointly developed by HP and Microsoft) can radically simplify the deployment and expedite building your Microsoft Private Cloud. In this session, see how these solutions can be used as a foundation for building a Microsoft Private Cloud using HP Converged Infrastructure, Microsoft System Center 2012 and Windows Server Hyper-V. This session provides a technical deep-dive into the architecture of these two offerings and includes demonstrations on how to rapidly provision the new SQL Server 2012 and integrate HP’s Insight Control into a Microsoft Private Cloud Environment.

Migrating Virtual Environments to Hyper-V: The Easy Way

Mark Gosson — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:45 GMT

Do your customers use VMware? Do they think converting VMs to Hyper-V is a complicated, labor-intensive process? Do you know customers can automatically migrate thousands of VMs with the click of a button? This session explains the Virtual Machine Migration Toolkit. Learn more about the technologies that power the toolkit including Microsoft System Center Orchestrator, System Center Virtual Machine Manager, and others. Understand the purpose of the Hyper-V Switch program and how you can leverage it to migrate customer's VMs to Hyper-V faster than anyone ever thought possible. #TEWSV336

Using the Windows Server 2012 Server Manager for Remote and Multi-Server Management

Wale Martins — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:45 GMT

As you prepare for deployment of Windows Server 2012, you will need to understand the value of the new Server Manager. This demo-heavy session showcases the new scenarios which include remote deployment of roles and features, and remote multi-server management and troubleshooting using the all-new Server Manager. #TEWSV335

Windows Server 2012 File and Storage Services Management

Fabian Uhse, Mathew Dickson — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:45 GMT

Windows Server 2012 dramatically increases the scalability, flexibility, and availability of your storage environment. It also provides new ways to manage your storage environment including single ‘pane of glass’ experience for storage and file services on standalone and clustered servers, pooling storage and allocating capacity with appropriate resiliency and performance for Windows, and a consistent storage management experience to configure Windows Storage Spaces or hardware subsystems. This session delves into these topics, as well as managing the deduplication policies to save storage capacity, remote/network access to Windows storage including SMB and NFS file shares for Information Workers and Applications as well as iSCSI block storage for diskless boot and application data, and ways to investigate and troubleshoot common end-user issues. #TEWSV334

Networking for Hybrid Cloud: BranchCache and Cross Premise Connectivity

Rob Kuehfus, Bala Rajagopalan — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:45 GMT

Windows Server 2012 provides the most highly cloud-optimized operating system available today. VPN site-to-site technology enables cross-premise connectivity between enterprises and hosting service providers, and BranchCache improves performance and saves bandwidth when users access remote services over the WAN. In this talk we’ll explain how to use the Unified Remote Access role to connect to private subnets in a hosting provider, and how to deploy BranchCache to maximize performance and compensate for added latency and bandwidth constraints. We’ll discuss new features that make BranchCache and the Unified Remote Access role easy to deploy and we’ll explain how to connect to hosting providers using existing network infrastructure and the Internet Key Exchange-IP security (IKEv2-IPsec) protocol. We’ll highlight the new features in BranchCache that enable greater bandwidth savings and the ability to scale to larger offices with more people. #TEWSV333

What's New with Internet Information Services (IIS) 8: Performance, Scalability, and Security

Robert McMurray — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:45 GMT

The session focuses on the new performance, scalability, and security features that are available in IIS 8, including how IIS scales on modern hardware, offers additional security via dynamic rules, and manages the end-user expectations on the age old question, "why does the first request take a long time on IIS?" #TEWSV332

What's New with Internet Information Services (IIS) 8: Open Web Platform for Cloud

Won Yoo — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:45 GMT

This session focuses on how IIS is evolving as a hosting platform in the areas of sand-boxing resources, scalability, and manageability. It's packed with live demos of these investments to highlight how they can be used in real deployment. #TEWSV331

How to Increase SQL Availability and Performance Using Window Server 2012 SMB 3.0 Solutions

Claus Joergensen, Gunter Zink — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:45 GMT

Did you know you can use Windows Server 2012 SMB 3.0 shares to store your Microsoft SQL Server data? And now Windows Server 2012 can extend SMB remote storage support with a host of new features including SMB Transparent Failover, SMB Multichannel, SMB Direct (Remote Direct Memory Access), SMB Scale-Out, increased performance, and more. This session overviews the best way to deploy Windows Server 2012 SMB solutions to support your Microsoft SQL Server environment, and enables you to start taking advantage of this scenario and the many new and enhanced features it provides. #TEWSV330

Architecting Private Clouds Using Windows Server 2012

Yigal Edery, Joshua Adams — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:45 GMT

Architecting a private cloud presents many complex design decisions and technology tradeoffs. These decisions touch areas such as network topologies, storage architecture selection, performance, reliability, security, dynamic virtual machine deployment, and interoperability with existing architecture. This talk presents a few canonical architectures that highlight interesting design decisions of a private cloud that are new in Windows Server 2012. #TEWSV329

The Path to Continuous Availability with Windows Server 2012

James Pinkerton, Gene Chellis — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:44 GMT

In IT organizations, there’s only one thing more critical than information—and that’s ensuring access to that information whenever it is needed. Today’s organizations simply cannot afford system failures or maintenance to cause downtime in any area. That’s why Windows Server 2012 includes enhancements that not only protect data but maximize availability from the foundational layers of the storage stack all the way up to the application and beyond. Windows Server 2012 goes beyond high availability with a versatile array of capabilities that are flexible enough to address availability needs under a wide variety of scenarios. Whether your organization is small or large, whether your environment is heterogeneous or not, Windows Server 2012 Beta capabilities can help you lead your organization down the path towards continuous availability. #TEWSV328

Windows Server 2012 Storage Solutions: Vast Storage Capabilities for Everyone

Bryan Matthew — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:44 GMT

Windows Server 2012 brings a wide arsenal of storage features and capabilities to the field in order to address common storage issues faced by organizations of any size and in any industry. From small businesses seeking ways to efficiently use their limited storage, to mid-sized organizations looking for affordable feature-rich storage array capabilities, to large organizations and hosting companies that demand the highest level of performance from their storage investments; no matter what you need from your storage, Windows Server 2012 brings something to the table for you. This session includes demos of the technologies and discusses real-world customer deployments. #TEWSV327

Windows Server 2012: A Techie’s Insight into the Hot New Features

John Craddock — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:44 GMT

As a federation and security architect, John Craddock has been involved in enterprise systems since the early days of Windows NT. His passion is for determining how things really work and then designing and deploying the most efficacious systems. John presented on Active Directory at one of the first Windows 2000 launch conferences in Geneva; of course this was only after delving deep into its inner workings. Now it’s time for Windows Server 2012 to be scrutinized. Come to this demo-packed session and discover what lies ahead. #TEWSV326

DNSSEC Deployment with Windows Server 2012

Rob Kuehfus — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:44 GMT

In this session we discuss in detail how to deploy DNSSEC in the Enterprise. We cover zone signing, validation, and last mile security. We also discuss using validation to protect the network edge. #TEWSV325

Building a Highly Available Failover Cluster Solution with Windows Server 2012 from the Ground UP

Lalithra Fernando, Rob Hindman — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:44 GMT

Windows Server 2012 delivers innovative new capabilities that enable you to build dynamic availability solutions in which workloads, networks, and storage become more flexible, efficient, and available than ever before. This session covers creating a Windows Server 2012 highly available Failover Cluster leveraging the new technologies in Windows Server 2012. This session walks through a demo leveraging a highly available Space, encrypting data with shared BitLocker disks, asymmetrical storage configurations with CSV I/O redirection… from the bottom up to a highly available solution. #TEWSV324

Deploying Private Clouds (Lessons Learned from the Windows Server 2012 TAP)

Allen Stewart, Pat Fetty — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:44 GMT

Windows Server 2012 is making large investments in cloud related technologies, most of which is based on direct customer feedback. The Windows Server 2012 TAP (Technology Adoption Program) had a dedicated program to building, testing, managing, and deploying Private, Public, and Hybrid Clouds at customer and Hoster sites. This session goes into detail on the lessons learned from direct customer feedback and best practices that resulted from the Windows Server 2012 TAP. We also provide a demonstration of one of the Hybrid cloud solutions our Hoster customers are deploying and using as part of a special project in the TAP called Project On Ramp which focused exclusively on Hybrid Cloud solutions. #TEWSV323

Update Management in Windows Server 2012: Revealing Cluster-Aware Updating and the New Generation of WSUS

Erin Chapple, Mallikarjun Chadalapaka — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:44 GMT

Today, patch management is a required component of any security strategy. In Windows Server 2012, the new Cluster-Aware Updating (CAU) feature delivers Continuous Availability through automated self-updating of failover clusters. In Windows Server 2012, Windows Server Update Services (WSUS) has evolved to become a Server Role with exciting new capabilities. This session introduces CAU with a discussion of its GUI, cmdlets, remote-updating and self-updating capabilities. And then we proceed to highlight the main functionalities of WSUS in Windows Server 2012 including the security enhancements, patch deployment automation, and new Windows PowerShell cmdlets to perform maintenance, manage and deploy updates. #TEWSV322

Understanding and Deploying Hosted Private Cloud: Concepts and Implementation

Tom Shinder, Joshua Adams — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:44 GMT

The Hosted Private Cloud is a new deployment model that enables an exceptional level of mobility and availability for your private cloud deployments. However, to get the most out of a Hosted Private Cloud solution, you need to understand the core concepts that drive a successful Hosted Private Cloud deployment and then understand what you need to do to implement the solution. In this talk, Dr. Tom Shinder and Yuri Diogenes discuss key Hosted Private Cloud Concepts and then demonstrate critical steps in implementing a hosted Private cloud. Demos show you how to evaluate the Hosted Private Cloud environment and how to configure and validate your Hosted Private Cloud configuration. #TEWSV320

Best Practices and Lessons Learned: Private Cloud Deployment in the Enterprise

Ryan Sokolowski — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:44 GMT

Join us to explore the ins-and-outs of planning and deploying a Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V Private Cloud running Microsoft System Center 2012 products! This session examines the entire process of envisioning, analyzing, planning, and designing a successful, scalable, elastic Private Cloud infrastructure and takes attendees through construction, testing, and piloting into Production. Hosted by Microsoft Consulting Services (MCS), we give you an inside look as a global enterprise organization, partnered with MCS and a key participant in the Private Cloud OneTAP program, rolls out their Private Cloud internally. We highlight the things that worked and caution you about the challenges we faced in successfully deploying this complex and extensive architecture. This session arms you with the information, details, and background that you need to be successful in your own private cloud deployments. #TEWSV319 This session arms you with the information, details, and background that you need to be successful in your own private cloud deployments.

Becoming the Next Private Cloud Expert in Your Organization

Yung Chou — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:44 GMT

As cloud computing is becoming an emerging vehicle for IT to deliver services, private cloud has been perplexing IT professionals. The confusion between virtualization and private cloud, the complexities of transforming a traditional infrastructure-centric deployment model into a service-focused cloud-enable environment, and the ambiguities and uncertainties of IT’s roles and responsibilities in an organization are all discouraging many IT professionals from recognizing the very opportunity, appreciating the significance and technological advancements, and taking an active path in contributing to private cloud initiatives. This presentation is to help IT professionals gain clarity and acquire technical depth of private cloud by clarifying myths, examining solution architecture, and walking through the process and operations of deploying a private cloud in an enterprise environment. #TEWSV318

Building a Private Cloud in 75 Minutes

Maarten Goet — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:44 GMT

Get ready for this demo-packed session from Maarten Goet, five-year System Center MVP, who shows you in this session how you really can build a private cloud using Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V and Microsoft System Center 2012. Get a practical approach in how to use System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012, Hyper-V, System Center Orchestrator 2012 and System Center Service Manager 2012 to create your cloud and how to enable others to self-service request computing capacity, and have it automatically be provisioned on your cloud. #TEWSV317

Clouds and Your Organization: A (Former) Professional Economist's View for IT Pros

Mark Minasi — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:44 GMT

For the past few years, we've all heard about "the cloud" and how it can save us money and make our IT infrastructure more "agile,"... but what does that really mean? For the answer, join veteran IT industry watcher Mark Minasi (who has three degrees in economics) as he dusts off his decades-old microeconomic analysis skills from his 80's stint as a senior economist in Washington and helps you get a handle on clouds and where they can help your organization—and have a few laughs in the process. In this popular, requested-around-the-world talk, Find out what you really, really, really must know about your current organization before considering a cloud solution. Understand what questions to ask of a prospective cloud vendor, and how to assess and ameliorate any cloud-related risks. Come to this talk and discover Mark's Nine Cloudy Conclusions... you won't want to miss it! #TEWSV316

Windows Server 2012 File System Enhancements: Redefining File Storage

Darren Moss — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:44 GMT

Windows Server 2012 introduces two important new features, Storage Spaces and the Resilient File System (ReFS), that empower customers to build resilient, scalable, available, and high performance storage solutions. Storage Spaces delivers powerful platform-based enterprise storage capabilities enabling utilization of cost-effective commodity storage hardware for business critical application deployments. ReFS maximizes data availability and online operation, despite errors that would historically cause data loss or downtime. Both of these can help build greater resiliency and data integrity to ensure that business-critical data is protected from errors and available when needed, using commodity hardware. In this session learn how Windows Server 2012 maintains the highest levels system availability and reliability providing a full end-to-end resilient architecture for ReFS when used in conjunction with Storage Spaces to magnify the capabilities and reliability of one another. This sessions includes demos of these technologies and uses real-world customer deployments to discuss how to deploy commodity storage hardware to build a cost-effective, resilient, and scalable storage platform. #TEWSV315

Windows Server 2012 NIC Teaming and Multichannel Solutions

Don Stanwyck, Jose Barreto — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:44 GMT

Windows Server 2012 includes two great new features to increase both performance and reliability. NIC teaming, a new feature in Windows Server 2012 provides greater availability and performance to your environment through link aggregation, switch independent mode, and supported load balancing algorithms. To add to this SMB 2.2 includes a capability called SMB Multichannel that provides scalable and resilient connections to SMB shares that dynamically create multiple connections for single sessions or multiple sessions on single connections depending on connection capabilities and current demand. This session delves deep into both of these great new features, and how to use them in your organization. #TEWSV314

The Network Files, Case #53: Diagnosing Diseases of DNS

Mark Minasi — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:44 GMT

Network troubleshooters soon learn that the first place to look when the network stops working is DNS... and soon after that, they learn that the in-the-box DNS troubleshooting tool, nslookup, is a pretty weak answer—but this session remedies that with a clear, step-by-step set of diagnostic approaches and prescriptions for DNS ills of all stripes. Give your troubled DNS queries a thorough workup with Network Monitor, and find out why those dynamic updates aren't happening. Get the scoop on the dread "EDNS flu," an ailment endemic to Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2 boxes. Take your DNS system's pulse with DNSLint. Take a sample of your DNS output with a close examination of your logs, and more. Attend this talk—the second-highest rated out of 400+ at TechEd North America 2011 and the 10th-best attended despite being in the last session timeslot of the conference—and you'll soon be known as "Doctor DNS!" #TEWSV313

IPv6: (Hard)Core Networking Services

Daniel Sörlöv — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:44 GMT

Today, almost 30% of networks support IPv6. We are making progress, but many still have not looked at the basics of their new network. In this session we dive into the IPv6 stack, discovering the differences between IPv4 and IPv6. We look at ARP, DHCP, DNS, DNSSEC and their new roles. This session is all about demonstrating the most common misconceptions about IPv6 and how you should avoid them. #TEWSV312

Extending Applications to Everywhere! Your Guide to Securing RDS RemoteApps for the Internet

Greg Shields — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:44 GMT

Your job as IT administrator is all about applications and data. You need to protect your users' data, and you need to ensure access to it via applications. But today's workforce requires us to make our applications available from everywhere. Creating your own Internet-based cloud infrastructure for corporate applications is quickly becoming a need for every environment, both large and small. You can create this today for very little cost using Microsoft Remote Desktop Services. RDS Guru and Microsoft MVP Greg Shields has been working with Terminal Services since its introduction in Windows NT 4.0 Terminal Services Edition, and in this deep dive session he presents the step-by-step approach to building a cloud-based remote applications infrastructure with enough industrial-grade security that even the most secure of networks will allow it. RDS has for too long been relegated to the sidelines. Attend this session and make secure, scaleable, and inexpensive cloud applications a reality for your company. #TEWSV311

Windows Server 2012: Cluster-in-a-Box, RDMA, and More

Spencer Shepler, John Loveall — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:44 GMT

A new wave of hardware is planned to be released by Microsoft's industry partners with Windows Server 2012 designed to provide a true volume platform for Continuous Availability. Come to this session to find out the details about what hardware is inside these new “Cluster-in-a-Box” systems and see prototypes up close and running live demos. These systems combine server blades, shared storage, internal cabling, and redundant power supplies into a single chassis targeted at the volume server market. They provide expansion slots to optionally incorporate RDMA-capable NICs that, when combined with the right storage drives and controllers, CPUs, and chipsets will allow Windows Server 2012 to move data at bus and wire speeds from the drives across the network. This new hardware, when combined with Windows Server 2012, will enable game-changing possibilities for your next systems. Come learn all the details and see what you can start to look for in product offerings from your industry partners. #TEWSV310

Deploying Windows Server 2012: From Bare Metal, Server Core, Minimal Server Interface, and More

Andrew Mason — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:44 GMT

What’s the best way to deploy Windows Server 2012? This session overviews new deployment options for Windows Server 2012 from bare metal deployments to choosing full GUI, Server Core or Minimal Server Interface installations. It covers server feature deployment on multiple servers, and more, with practical ways to design your deployment. #TEWSV309

Standards Support and Interoperability in Windows Server 2012: Storage, Networking, and Management

Jeffrey Snover, See-Mong Tan, Wojtek Kozaczynski, Gene Chellis — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:44 GMT

Windows has always implemented formal and industry standards but the Windows Server 2012 mission to be a Cloud OS required us to take this to a new level with investments in storage, networking and management standards. For example, in Windows Server 2012 the WSMAN standard is now the primary management protocol, with DCOM provided for backwards compatibility. Clearly this is not your father’s Windows Server. This 200-level session covers formal “de jure” standards including management (such as SMI-S, WSMAN and CIM), networking (such as IPv6, IPSec, DCB, DCTCP, NVGRE, ECMA Power standards and RDMA), and storage (such as NFS and iSCSI). We describe the technology, how Windows supports it, what benefits it brings, and what you need to change/do in order to get those benefits. We also discuss “de facto” standards such as VSS and SMB and describe how Microsoft enables and promotes interoperability using conferences, protocol documentation, plugfests and more to make Windows Server 2012 the most interoperable operating system on the planet. IT pros should come learn how Windows Server 2012 simplifies the tasks of architecting and running systems and how you should update your equipment purchasing guidelines. Developers and Partners should come to learn about new opportunities and preferred mechanisms to interoperate with Windows Server 2012. #TEWSV308

Windows Server 2012 IP Address Management

Bala Rajagopalan — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:44 GMT

It is complex and expensive to manage the enterprise IP address space due to proliferation of net enabled devices, adoption of technologies like virtualization and IPv6, and also due to the impending exhaustion of the public IPv4 address space. This has led to a pressing need for automating IP address space management, obtaining real-time insight into address utilization, and the monitoring and management of the addressing and naming infrastructure (DNS and DHCP servers). Windows Server 2012 introduces the in-box IP address management (IPAM) feature - a central framework for monitoring and managing the IP address space and the associated infrastructure servers. Apart from the core offerings, IPAM also provides support for auto-discovery of infrastructure servers in Active Directory forest; supports migration of IP address space data from legacy tracking tools and enables integration with other address provisioning systems such as SCVMM. IPAM also supports audit of IP address activity on the network to ensure compliance and enhanced change management. IPAM thus caters to the requirements of various enterprise admin personas like the network administrator, the server administrator and the forensics investigator, and it significantly reduces the operational cost of managing the IP address space and associated infrastructure servers. This session will describe the rationale, objectives and design of Windows Server 2012 IPAM, and demonstrate its key capabilities. #TEWSV307

Inside Windows Server 2012 Multi-Server Management Capabilities

Jeffrey Snover, Erin Chapple — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:44 GMT

Windows Server 2012 will offer excellent total cost of ownership as an integrated platform with comprehensive, multicomputer manageability. Two areas in which Windows Server 2012 improves multicomputer management are Server Manager and Windows PowerShell 3.0. Server Manager in Windows Server 2012 helps you efficiently deploy and manage roles and features on the local server, on remote servers, and on both online and offline virtual hard disks. It also provides a multiserver experience where you can centralize your Windows Server management in a single view, and streamlined your server configuration and deployment from the same window. Windows PowerShell 3.0 provides an extensive platform to help you manage server roles and automate management tasks. With access to over 2300 commandlets (a tenfold increase from the previous version), Windows PowerShell 3.0 offers comprehensive management across your datacenter. This session overviews these subjects in detail and prepares you for enhancing your management capability. #TEWSV306

Build an Enterprise-Level Storage Infrastructure for Small and Midsize Businesses

Michael Leworthy, David Fabritius — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:44 GMT

Learn how Windows Server 2012 makes enterprise-level storage possible for small and midsize businesses—without the enterprise-class price tag. In this session, we describe how to design and implement a cost-effective storage infrastructure based on your business needs and growth. Learn about the new Storage Spaces, enhancements in storage technologies, and support for new storage solutions for virtualized environments. #TEWSV305

Windows Server 2012 Networking Performance and Management

Prabu Rambadran — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:44 GMT

Windows Server 2012 includes major performance features and improvements to help increase networking throughput, improve scalability, and provide customers with a more powerful, easily managed, virtualization experience. This session overviews new features including SR-IOV, Dynamic Virtual Machine Queuing, IPsec task offload, and IP Address Manager (IPAM). We also share data highlighting how some of the features benefit large VM deployments and hoster type scenarios. #TEWSV304

Windows Server 2012 High-Performance, Highly-Available Storage Using SMB

Claus Joergensen, Gene Chellis — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:44 GMT

The Server Message Block (SMB) Protocol is the file sharing protocol that is used by default on Windows computers. To support this, Windows Server 2012 now provides a vast set of new SMB features with an updated SMB protocol that greatly enhance the reliability, availability, manageability, and performance of file servers. This session overviews all the new SMB related features that Windows Server 2012 provides, and how to use them in your organization. #TEWSV303

Windows Server 2012 DirectAccess: How to Quickly and Easily Deploy Your Next Generation Remote Access Experience

Sandeep Singhal — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:44 GMT

With the new DirectAccess and Remote Access enhancements, you can easily provide more secure remote access connections for your users, and then log reports for monitoring and troubleshooting those connections. The new features in Windows Server 2012 support deployments in dispersed geographical locations, improved scalability with high availability, and improved performance in virtualized environments. This session overviews the new integrated remote access solution that is easier to deploy, enabling employees access to corporate network resources while they work remotely, and IT administrators to manage corporate computers that are located outside the internal network. #TEWSV302

Building Hosted Public and Private Clouds Using Windows Server 2012

Yigal Edery, Joshua Adams — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:44 GMT

Windows Server 2012 comes with plenty of features to help hosters build public Infrastructure as a Service clouds. In this session, learn how hosters can take advantage of the new Hyper-v, storage, network, and management features built into Windows Server 2012 to build efficient, low-cost and open public and hosted private clouds. #TEWSV301

Windows Server 2012 + Advanced Storage Solutions = Datacenter Elevation

Alex Jauch — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:44 GMT

In this session we cover the new storage innovation in Windows Server 2012 by showing intelligent storage offloading (ODX), an overview of the storage integration between Windows Server 2012 and NetApp for Remote VSS, and continuous availability enabled by SMB 3.0. As we walk through the data center of tomorrow, we will show demos of Microsoft SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn Availability Groups and Windows Server Hyper-V™, to demonstrate applications and private cloud on a shared storage infrastructure. The session concludes with a deep dive through NetApp FlexPod technology supporting a multi-tenant deployment from a real-world customer.

Accelerating the Power of the Cloud with Microsoft Private Cloud Fast Track and EMC Infrastructure

Mike McGhee — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:44 GMT

Understand how to accelerate deployments of Microsoft Private Cloud Infrastructures with Microsoft Private Cloud Fast Track configurations from EMC. Learn how you can confidently transition your Microsoft Applications to the cloud with an integrated and robust cloud architecture based on Microsoft Hyper-V. This session discusses technical considerations for leveraging Fast Track configurations with storage replication, data tiering, and automated storage management for Microsoft Private Cloud deployments.

Dell Windows Server 2012 Greenfield Data Design – Hosted Service / Private Cloud

Terry Storey — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:44 GMT

This session outlines the various features and capabilities within Windows Server 2012 to build a cost effective, scalable, and highly available hosted service / private cloud solution. This is based on real-world customer experience from design to implementation and is in production today, specifically, to provide real-world Private Cloud Solution Architecture design overview for multiple Windows Server 2012 capabilities on Dell storage, networking and Server platforms.

Introduction to the Microsoft Private Cloud

Symon Perriman — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:44 GMT

Everyone is talking about “The Cloud”, but what does it really mean to an organization and the IT professionals who are managing it? How does the private cloud drive down cost and increase efficiency while making the role of the IT pro more important? Which Microsoft technologies contribute to the Microsoft private cloud and what does your organization need to do to get there? Join Symon Perriman, Microsoft’s Private Cloud Technical Evangelist, to learn the basic concepts and technologies of the private cloud covering infrastructure, service and application management. This session offers guidance and best practices to help you understand the benefits of moving your datacenters to the next computing evolution with advanced datacenter management from Windows Server and Microsoft System Center 2012. #TEWSV207

Best Practices for Designing and Consolidating Group Policy for Performance and Security

Darren Mar-Elia — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:44 GMT

Customer Group Policy Implementations have grown and morphed over the years to perform a variety of Windows configuration management tasks. Today many customers find themselves with many, many GPOs, some of which have duplicate settings or are not optimized for the user's desktop experience. In this session, we provide best practices for designing Group Policy implementations with performance and security in mind. In addition, we present techniques using PowerShell and other Group Policy tools and features to help consolidate and streamline your existing deployments. #TEWSV206

Windows Server 2012 Overview

Michael Leworthy — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:44 GMT

Windows Server 2012 brings Microsoft’s experience building and operating public clouds to the server operating system, making it a dynamic, highly available, and cost-effective platform for private clouds and on-premise datacenters. It can take you Beyond Virtualization while offering The Power of Many Servers, and the Simplicity of One. It helps with Every App, Any Cloud, and offers to help Enable the Modern Work Style. Learn what we mean by all that and furthermore, experience this in a number of demos showing exciting new features and scenarios. #TEWSV205

Messaging and Collaboration Scenarios with Windows Small Business Server

David Fabritius — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:44 GMT

Learn about designing and implementing both on-premise and cloud-based messaging and collaboration solutions with SBS8Windows Small Business Server. Including utilizing Office 365, Exchange server, Hosted Exchange and other solutions to provide greater options to your business or customers. #TEWSV204

Overview of Windows MultiPoint Server

Clark Nicholson — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:44 GMT

This session demonstrates the new features and enhancements in Windows MultiPoint Server. Learn how MultiPoint can provide huge cost savings in classroom or small business environments, and discover some best practices in deploying a WMS solution. #TEWSV202

Microsoft Private Cloud Fast Track: The Next Generation of Private Cloud Reference Architecture

Bryon Surace, Mike Truitt — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:44 GMT

Microsoft Private Cloud Fast Track delivers the fastest path to Private Cloud via pre-validated configurations from Microsoft and server partners. Originally announced at TechEd Europe in November of 2010, Fast Track has continued to gain momentum. Fast Track includes a full reference architecture and design principles for compute, network, storage, and management components including Microsoft System Center 2012. Join us for this session where we delve into architecture and design principles including the advanced functionality delivered with System Center 2012. We also cover several of the Fast Track configurations from our partners that are in market today and coming to market soon! #TEWSV201

Turn PowerShell Commands into Reusable CLI and GUI Tools

Don Jones — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:44 GMT

Say you've written an incredible PowerShell command or script. How do you leverage that as a tool across your entire organization? Learn to turn those commands and scripts into tools that can be safely used by your less-technical colleagues, or even end users! PowerShell MVP and author Don Jones demonstrates a variety of approaches, including cmdlet-like command-line tools all the way up to fully-distributable GUI tools that you can build yourself!

PowerShell Remoting in Depth

Don Jones — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:44 GMT

Remoting is a foundation feature in Windows PowerShell, and is poised to become one of the most important protocols on your network, especially for remote client management and support. Do you know how it works? Can your troubleshoot it? Can you configure it in a variety of scenarios to meet your organization's needs for security and operations? Don Jones, PowerShell author and MVP, walks you through the nitty-gritty details of Remoting, showing examples for a variety of scenarios and covering its troubleshooting features in great detail.

App Compat for Nerds: Understanding, Troubleshooting, and Fixing Busted Apps

Chris Jackson — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:44 GMT

Are you interested in getting started with application compatibility? Have you been doing app compat for a while and just looking to discover some new tips on how to troubleshoot and fix existing applications? Join Chris Jackson (“The App Compat Guy”) for a lively session on app compat where we explore the technical side of application compatibility for Windows and Internet Explorer. Understand how the built-in compatibility infrastructure works on these products, learn how to configure them, and how to troubleshoot and resolve those applications that require a little more work to get functioning correctly. This is a very technical session, but is still accessible to those who don’t yet have deep experience in application compatibility.

Windows 8: What’s New in App Compat Tools

Chris Jackson, Marc Sweetgall — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:44 GMT

The Windows 8 Assessment and Deployment Toolkit (ADK) includes the latest evolution in the Application Compatibility Toolkit: ACT 6.0. Join Chris Jackson (“The App Compat Guy”) for a discussion on our ongoing development of best practices for application compatibility, and how this manifests itself in ACT 6.0. In this demo-heavy session, learn how to use new tools to implement proven methodologies to accelerate deployment of new versions of Windows in an enterprise environment. We have re-thought and re-imagined all of our historical approaches to app compat, challenging all previous assumptions, with results that we think will help you dramatically accelerate your deployments.

Windows 8: Image Validation and Improvement Scenarios with the Windows ADK

Jeff Stokes — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:44 GMT

In this session, learn about the tools included in the Windows ADK and how you can use these tools to validate and improve your image before releasing it to the production environment.

Client Management Scenarios in the Windows 8 Timeframe

Craig Morris, Bryan Keller — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:44 GMT

Learn how Microsoft Client Management products, Configuration Manager and Windows Intune will leverage Windows 8 new features and platforms to further enhance enterprise customer’s embracement of Flexible Workstyles and the consumerization of IT. We discuss how these products support enterprise and consumer platforms, Metro style applications, Windows To Go, and much, much more.

Windows Intune: Equipping the Enterprise to Manage the Consumerization of IT

Craig Morris — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:44 GMT

Consumer purchased technologies are increasingly being used to access corporate resources. Learn how Windows Intune is keeping IT on the front line by providing the highest level of service to these users. Windows Intune provides the user centric client management features such as self-service software installation, get help from IT, and policy management as a cloud-based solution for these users and their devices. In addition, Windows Intune provides the more classical management features such as update management, anti-malware, software distribution, and client side monitoring. This session touches on all the core capabilities of the Windows Intune product and is critical for anyone wanting to understand the benefits of Microsoft’s cloud-based solution for client management.

Windows 8: Windows To Go Overview

Karri Alexion-Tiernan, Skand Mittal — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:44 GMT

Join the session to get an in-depth overview of Windows To Go, a new feature in Windows 8 Enterprise that will offer new possibilities in mobile productivity.

Deploying Windows 8 with the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT)

Michael Niehaus — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:44 GMT

With each pre-release of Windows 8, the obvious questions begin to arise: How can we deploy it? The Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT) will be able to help you with your Windows 8 deployments. In this session, we explore changes in the tools and processes for deploying Windows 8, then look at how MDT encapsulates these changes to make deploying Windows 8 easy.

What's New in Microsoft Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset 8 (DaRT 8)

Paul MacKnight — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:44 GMT

The Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset (DaRT) is one of the most popular tools in the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP). Join this session to better understand why it's so popular and learn about the new features in DaRT 8, including support for Windows 8, new hardware standards, and PowerShell.

Getting the Most Out of the Power of Group Policy

Jeremy Moskowitz — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:44 GMT

Want more out of your Group Policy? See how you can unlock the power of Group Policy in your organization and reduce administrative overhead. This session includes a number of demos that can make you a "Winner" when it comes to managing your environment, and shows you some of the new features in Group Policy with Windows 8.

Microsoft BitLocker Administration and Monitoring 2.0: What's New?

Tim Crabb, Chris Hallum — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:44 GMT

Microsoft BitLocker Administration and Monitoring enhances BitLocker by simplifying deployment and key recovery, providing centralized monitoring and reporting, and minimizing the costs related to managing an encrypted environment. Come join us to hear what we’ve learned from customers who have been deploying MBAM into production over the last year and how MBAM can help address your needs today.

Windows Intune: Cloud Based PC Management (Technical Overview)

Erdal Ozkaya, Elias Mereb — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:44 GMT

Cloud Computing is changing the way we manage PCs in the enterprise. In this session we take a deep dive exploration into the cloud based Windows management solution. We explore all the security features, how to manage updates, how to create policies, and how to upload and deploy software, all this from a single web management console.

Windows Intune for the Enterprise

Elias Mereb, David Nudelman — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:44 GMT

How can Enterprise-level companies benefit from Windows Intune? In this session, Windows Expert - IT Pro MVP David Nudelman shares his experiences with Windows Intune in large corporations.

Five Infrastructure Changes That Will Boost Performance for the Windows Client

Andreas Stenhall — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:44 GMT

Windows 7 performance is great in all its glory, but there are many things you can do with your corporate server infrastructure to boost performance on your client machines even more. In this session, learn how you can easily perform changes in your infrastructure to improve performance for your Windows clients that your end users will really appreciate.

Raiders of the Elevated Token: Understanding User Account Control and Session Isolation

Raymond Comvalius — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:44 GMT

You noticed that Windows 7 is much less frequent in its requests for elevation than Windows Vista. But why are some applications still requesting for elevation? Why do some applications running in the background require interaction to show their output? Is this security in Windows 7? This session demonstrates how security-related compatibility issues caused by legacy applications can be analyzed and what solutions are available to fix them yourself. The session provides an overview of potential issues and what tools can enable you to take control over both legacy applications and web applications accessed by Windows Internet Explorer 8 and 9.

IPv6 Bootcamp: Get Up to Speed Quickly

Edward Horley — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:44 GMT

Many involved with networking are declaring 2012 the year of IPv6. This presentation is focused on an introduction to IPv6 and how to start using it quickly. Topics covered include IPv6 addresses, stateless and stateful auto-configuration, address management, planning a migration and comparing and contrasting IPv6 to IPv4. In addition, it covers what transition technologies to pay attention to and how and why they are used and what problems they address. Finally, a checklist of tasks and recommendations is provided for deploying IPv6 with solutions like DirectAccess, Microsoft Exchange Server 2010, Windows 7, and Windows Server 2008 R2.

Troubleshooting Windows 7 Deployments

Michael Niehaus — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:44 GMT

When everything works, Windows 7 deployment is great. But what about when things break? In this session, we look at common causes and solutions for failed Windows 7 deployments, looking at issues with the Windows 7 installation process itself (SETUP and related tools), Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2010 (Lite Touch), and Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 SP2 (Zero Touch).

Customizing the User State Migration Tool

Michael Niehaus — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:44 GMT

When deploying Windows 7 to existing machines, you need to ensure that all the users' data and settings are migrated. While much of this is gathered automatically by USMT, additional customization may be needed. In this session, we look at how to do those customizations.

What's New in Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2012 (MDT)

Michael Niehaus — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:44 GMT

The next version of the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit will be released soon! Learn about all the new features and enhancements in this version, including support for Microsoft System Center 2012 Configuration Manager; the ability to deploy to UEFI computers; integration with the DaRT tools; and much more.

Choosing the Right OS Deployment Tool

Mikael Nystrom, Johan Arwidmark — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:44 GMT

Join Mikael Nystrom and Johan Arwidmark in a dazzling session on using the right tools for deploying Windows. They navigate you through the current deployment tools that Microsoft provides and help you decide which solution is right for you. They guide you on when to tweak, and when to stop tweaking and choose a different path. Tools and solutions like Windows Automated Installation Kit, Windows Deployment Toolkit and Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2012, and Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2012 are covered in this session. You can expect a lot of live demos, tips, and tricks.

A Drivers Saga: The Control Freak Meets the Dynamic Developer

Michael Niehaus, Johan Arwidmark — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:44 GMT

One of the biggest challenges of Windows deployment is dealing with device drivers. Meet Johan Arwidmark and Michael Niehaus sharing their lessons learned around handling device drivers in the deployment process. As a foundation, the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2012 and Microsoft System Center 2012 Configuration Manager platform is used. You can expect a lot of live demos, tips and tricks in this session.

Microsoft User Experience Virtualization (UE-V): Enhancing User State Virtualization through MDOP

Anthony Smith, Briton Zurcher — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:44 GMT

In a future version of the Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack (MDOP), a new product called User Experience Virtualization (UE-V) will be added. This session offers an early look into how this upcoming product will provide you with an enhanced user state virtualization experience through consistent personalization in application and operating system settings; no matter how you access your desktop or applications.

How Many Coffees Can You Drink While Windows 7 Boots?

Stephen Rose, Vadim Arakelov, Matthew Reynolds — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:44 GMT

Learn how Microsoft IT and other enterprises have found and fixed top causes of slow boots and logons. We can measure boot in terms of coffee cups (or you can measure user productivity losses in millions of dollars)! M.C. Stephen Rose and Microsoft IT PM Vadim Arakelov will share insider tips and how Microsoft IT has addressed technology and process problems that slowed user logon and productivity. Premier Field Engineers Pieter Wigleven and Matthew Reynolds will show you how to see inside a slow boot using in-depth tools from the Windows ADK. Top fixes and good/bad/ugly enterprise experiences will be revealed. For those of you rolling out Windows 7 deployments, or looking to optimize user productivity and experience this is a must attend session.

Embracing the Future: Modernizing Legacy Software Assets

Chris Jackson — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:44 GMT

Most organizations have a large collection of existing software assets, which continue to drive enormous value. While the compatibility infrastructure of the Microsoft stack provides ways to continue to benefit from these investments, by keeping your software in compatibility mode you lose the benefits of the new platform. Join Chris Jackson ("The App Compat Guy") for a demo-heavy session illustrating techniques developers can use to gradually modernize an application portfolio, app by app.

Microsoft Desktop Virtualization: The Right Technology for Your Business Scenario

Karri Alexion-Tiernan, Matt McDermott, Skand Mittal, Brett Waldman — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:44 GMT

Deploying Desktop Virtualization is becoming one of the top priorities for our customers, but they want to understand which technology best addresses their pain points and where to start. Join us to learn which desktop virtualization strategy to implement when you face business problems like: How do I migrate to newer version of Windows OS easily? How do I embrace Consumerization? Get answers to: When should I consider App-V? Where does RDS and VDI apply? What are new capabilities of the DV stack?

Microsoft Application Virtualization 5.0: Introduction

Matthijs Gates, Andy Cerat — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:44 GMT

See how the next version of Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V) takes application virtualization to the next level. In this session, see how version 5.0 is more integrated, more flexible, and more manageable than ever before.

Windows 8: DEMOS (repeats on 6/14 at 10:15am)

Brad McCabe — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:44 GMT

Windows 8: Desktop Security Strategy

Adwait Joshi, Chris Hallum — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:44 GMT

Come join us to learn more about Microsoft’s strategy for securing Windows PCs. In this session we talk about our approach to desktop security and how a comprehensive security solution can be achieved when using Windows client, Windows Server, Microsoft System Center, Microsoft Office, and Windows Internet Explorer.

Windows 8: Malware Resistance

Nathan Ide, Chris Hallum — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:44 GMT

Windows 8 has been designed from the ground up to be fundamentally resistant to threats such as malware. Come join us to learn how Microsoft secures the Windows code, core, boot, and desktop with exciting new capabilities such as exploit mitigations, Trusted and Measured Boot, Windows Defender, and Metro applications just to name a few.

Windows 8: An Introduction to Mobile Broadband, DirectAccess, and BranchCache

Craig Ashley — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:44 GMT

Connected from anywhere, increased productivity, and better network management via cost-aware networking. Sound interesting? This session provides a general overview of these scenarios, including discussion on improvements to DirectAccess, BranchCache, and general networking (mobile broadband) with Windows 8. Additional deep dive sessions and 300-level content is available via separate sessions in the Windows Server Track.

Windows 8: Virtual Desktop Infrastructure

Balagopalan Nikhil, Brett Waldman — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:43 GMT

With Windows Server 2012 and Windows 8, our Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI) technology provides a better user experience across devices and networks, offers better value than the competition, and helps to simplify manageability for your environment. Join this session to learn how.

Windows 8: BitLocker

Nathan Ide, Chris Hallum — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:43 GMT

Come join us to learn how new Windows 8 BitLocker features will make BitLocker easier to provision in client and server scenarios and will help lead to pervasive deployment and use.

Windows 8: Lap Around the Windows 8 Metro style UI

Brad McCabe — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:43 GMT

Learn how the new Windows 8 user interface (UI) helps users be more productive with both its touch-enabled interface and full support of mouse and keyboard.

Windows 8: Overview for the Enterprise - Enabling Flexible Workstyles

Brad McCabe, Stella Chernyak — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:43 GMT

How people work has changed dramatically over the last few years. Today’s users have access to the latest technology in their personal lives, and increasingly have a say in what technology they use to get the job done. Learn how Windows 8 and other Microsoft technologies can enable today’s Flexible Workstyles, giving your users the experiences they will love while providing you with the enterprise-grade capabilities you require.

Total Desktop Lockdown: Your Action Plan

Jeremy Moskowitz — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:43 GMT

Total workstation lockdown isn’t for every machine in your organization but some machines require it. It’s usually those "public walk up" machines that we need to manage a little bit differently. These kinds of machines are in the cafeterias, the lobby and the library. Microsoft has a variety of technologies you can choose (and mix and match) to ensure your workstations as locked down as they need to be. In this session, Group Policy MVP Jeremy Moskowitz demonstrates a myriad of ways to make your public desktops more secure. If your team is already using Group Policy, come learn about common GP Scenarios, the GP Preferences, and how to efficiently use loopback processing. Learn about some non-Microsoft tools to help enhance your PC control.

Removing the Shackles of Legacy Software: Best Practices for Enabling Platform Agility in the Enterprise

Chris Jackson — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:43 GMT

Whether you are managing your own or assisting a customer with a desktop deployment project, you can’t avoid the conversation around application compatibility. How should you put together a solution? What options are available? How can I be sure I am meeting my users' and customer’s needs? Join Chris Jackson (“The App Compat Guy”) for a conversation around the best practices that Microsoft has uncovered to help you solve the app compat challenge in adopting and embracing the latest versions of Windows, Internet Explorer, and Office. We share delivery methods, best practices, and general guidance with the goal of helping you get started with deployments earlier, move through the project more quickly, and finish more successfully and less expensively.

Windows 8: Understanding the Windows Store and Metro style App Deployment in the Enterprise

Robert Green — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:43 GMT

Through this session, attendees gain a better understanding of how enterprise customers can make Metro style apps available to their users, deploy and manage LOB Metro style apps, and manage access to the Windows Store in their environment.

Windows 8: Windows RT Devices for Business

Hiroshi Sakakibara — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:43 GMT

In this session we will discuss the business capabilities of Windows RT (Windows on ARM) devices. We will talk about the Windows RT capabilities from business angle - e.g., user experience, productivity, connectivity, security, and manageability - as well as how organizations should assess Windows RT devices for their environment..

Microsoft Application Virtualization 5.0: Automating with PowerShell

Ted Annan, George Matthews — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:43 GMT

Microsoft Application Virtualization (App-V) 5.0, introduces the ability to automate Sequencing, Client, and Server components through PowerShell. In this demo-rich session, learn how to use PowerShell automation with the App-V 5.0 Beta.

Hyper-V High-Availability and Mobility: Designing the Infrastructure for Your Private Cloud

Symon Perriman — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:43 GMT

Private Cloud Technical Evangelist Symon Perriman leads this session discussing Windows Server 2012 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V and Failover Clustering design, infrastructure planning and deployment considerations for your highly-available datacenter or Private Cloud. Do you know the pros and cons of how different virtualization solutions can provide continual availability? Do you know how Microsoft System Center 2012 can move the solution closer to a Private Cloud implementation? This session covers licensing, hardware, validation, deployment, upgrades, host clustering, guest clustering, disaster recovery, multi-site clustering, System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 and 2012, and offers a wealth of best practices. Prior clustering and Hyper-V knowledge recommended. #TEVIR401

Lessons from the Field: 22 VDI and RDS Mistakes You'll Want to Avoid

Greg Shields — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:43 GMT

Ever wonder if you've made mistakes with your VDI or RDS environment? You might be surprised. With so many moving parts, Remote Desktop Services and VDI atop Hyper-V are ripe candidates for catastrophic misconfiguration. Even worse are the architectures doomed for failure before they're ever turned on. Don't be that administrator. Join RDS MVP and noted virtualization expert Greg Shields on this exploration of the 22 biggest mistakes he's seen in the field across scores of RDS and VDI implementations. You'll leave with a checklist of things to verify in your own environment the moment you return home. #TEVIR317

Windows Server 2012 VDI/RDS Infrastructure and Management

Adam Carter, Dean Paron — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:43 GMT

With Windows Server 2012, the deployment of session-based desktops and applications becomes simpler and more powerful than ever before. Discover new features and enhancements with Remote Desktop Services (RDS) and deep dive into the IT Admin experience for easier deployment of VDI solutions based on RDS. #TEVIR314

RemoteFX and RDP Rocking RDS in Windows Server 2012

Rob Williams, Gaurav Daga — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:43 GMT

As RemoteFX expands its reach into the market, software and hardware companies are designing solutions to deliver the best experiences to users and IT managers. This session includes a deep dive into the investments that have been made to improve several scenarios—WAN and LAN performance and utilization, media remoting, and USB redirection. Come see the latest in technology for RemoteFX and VDI. #TEVIR313

Compete to Win, Part 1: Comparing Core Virtualization Platforms

Matt McSpirit — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:43 GMT

This is a must-see session for anyone who is comparing virtualization offerings! In this session, we review the key capabilities of Hyper-V, in both Windows Server 2008 R2, and Windows Server 2012, in comparison with the alternative virtualization technologies in this space, focusing on what differentiates the offerings. We spend time dispelling common myths around Hyper-V enabling you to more effectively compare the different solutions, both now, and in the future. If you need to know how the Microsoft virtualization stack compares to other offerings, this is the session for you! #TEVIR311

Deploying Hyper-V Hosts Using Microsoft System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager

Mikael Nystrom — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:43 GMT

In System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) we now have the capability to deploy hyper-v hosts directly from SCVMM 2012. So how do you do that in reality? What are the requirements? How about drivers and applications that are needed on the host server? This session is focused on the key components you will need including hardware, software and OS configuration as well as some tips and tricks to help you get started. #TEVIR310

What's New in Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V, Part 2

Jeff Woolsey — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:43 GMT

Building on Part 1, the second part of What's new in Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V continues to show a complete summary of why Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V is the best virtualization platform for server consolidation, key workload support and VDI, as well as the ideal platform for Infrastructure as a Service, including Private Cloud, Hybrid Cloud, and Public Cloud. #TEVIR309

What's New in Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V, Part 1

Jeff Woolsey — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:43 GMT

This two-part session overviews the new and updated features for Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V, including Multitenancy, High Availability, flexibility infrastructure, and Scale and Density. Over the two sessions, it provides a complete summary of why Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V is the best virtualization platform for server consolidation, key workload support and VDI, as well as the ideal platform for Infrastructure as a Service, including Private Cloud, Hybrid Cloud, and Public Cloud. #TEVIR308

Get Hands-on with the New Hyper-V Extensible Switch in Windows Server 2012

Bob Combs — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:43 GMT

With the proliferation of virtualization, hypervisor customers are demanding integrated protection, consistent management, the ability to add virtual appliances, and to tailor virtual switches to their networks. The Hyper V Extensible Switch in Windows Server 2012 offers several new features to provide isolation and security capabilities for your virtual networks. The Hyper-V switch is also fully extensible so customers can choose third-party switch extensions for security, monitoring, and enhanced switching functionality. This session overviews the core features if the new Hyper-V Extensible switch, how you would use it in your organization, how it can provide multitenant security on a shared infrastructure as a service (IaaS) cloud, and how partners are extending it to further increase value. #TEVIR307

Hyper-V over SMB2: Remote File Storage Support in Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V

Jose Barreto — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:43 GMT

In this session, we cover the Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V support for remote file storage using SMB 3.0. This introduces a new first-class storage option for Hyper-V that is a flexible, easy to use and cost-effective alternative to block storage. We detail the basic requirements for Hyper-V over SMB and outline the specific enhancements to SMB 3.0 to support server application storage, including SMB Transparent Failover, SMB Scale-Out, SMB Multichannel, SMB Direct (SMB over RDMA), SMB Encryption, SMB PowerShell, SMB performance counters and VSS for SMB File Shares. We conclude with a few suggested configurations for Hyper-V over SMB, including both standalone and clustered options.. #TEVIR306

Hyper-V Network Virtualization for Scalable Multi-Tenancy in Windows

Sandeep Singhal — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:43 GMT

“Any service at any server in any cloud.” Next generation data centers should allow dynamic resource allocation and consolidation across large resource pools. The topological constrains of today’s data center networks limit how services can be assigned to servers. Windows Server 2012 enables you to create an agile, multi-tenant cloud on top of your existing infrastructure by virtualizing the network. Network virtualization decouples server configuration from network configuration to provide a virtual dedicated network to each tenant. This allows seamless migration of workloads, while continuing to provide security isolation between tenants. Partners have the opportunity to become multi-tenancy aware and provide the next generation of services, devices, appliances, both physical and virtual, to augment and complete the Windows offering to build secure, scalable, multi-tenant public and private clouds. #TEVIR305

Building Flexible Hyper-V Environments Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Live Migration and Live Storage Migration

Ben Armstrong — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:43 GMT

To maintain optimal use of physical resources and to be able to easily add new virtual machines, you must be able to move virtual machines whenever necessary without disrupting business. In Windows Server 2012 live migrations are no longer limited to a cluster and you can now move both Virtual Machines and Virtual Machine storage using clusters, SMB shares and even just a simple network cable (no shared storage) – with no downtime. You have ultimate flexibility in your virtual infrastructure and further, when combined with features such as Network Virtualization, virtual machines can even be moved between hosts that are on different network subnets. #TEVIR304

An Overview of Hyper-V Networking in Windows Server 2012

See-Mong Tan — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:43 GMT

With Windows Server 2012, Hyper-V networking is evolved and expanded to be optimized for all sizes of customers, public and private clouds. New features in Windows Server 2012 networking include SMB2 support, NIC teaming, SR-IOV, Network Virtualization and enhanced QoS expand Hyper-V for performance, reliability, scale, and security. In this session, learn about these new features and more – how to plan, implement, and manage them in your upcoming Windows Server 2012 environment. #TEVIR303

Enabling Disaster Recovery for Hyper-V Workloads Using Hyper-V Replica

Mike van de Merwe, Shreesh Dubey — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:43 GMT

Most SMB customers do not have robust disaster recovery plans despite experiencing around six outages in a year. This is because current solutions for disaster recovery are expensive, complicated to set up, and generally don’t work well in virtualized environments. Hyper-V Replica offers an affordable DR solution for virtualized workloads. It is included with Hyper-V, works with commodity storage, and has an inbox UI to set up standard DR flows. It also has a rich API surface (PowerShell and WMI) which provides extensibility for management partners (e.g., extend the inbox UI to an enterprise-grade DR solution) and hosting service providers (e.g., offer DR as a service). #TEVIR302

Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Storage

Senthil Rajaram, Taylor Brown — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:43 GMT

In this session, we cover the changes to the Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V storage stack. We dive into the enhancements around the new virtual disk format, integrating new storage industry innovations around offloaded data transfer and large sector disks, and detail the new storage options for Hyper-V including Storage spaces and SMB file storage. We present performance and scaling improvements and conclude the session with sample configurations, including both standalone and clustered options. #TEVIR301

What’s New with Windows Server 2012 and Microsoft System Center 2012 SP1

Vijay Tewari — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:43 GMT

Together, Windows Server 2012 and System Center 2012 SP1 provide powerful solutions to build private clouds and enhance your datacenter. This session overviews the new enhancements within System Center 2012 SP1 and how, when paired with Windows Server 2012, it can take your infrastructure to the next level and quickly deploy private clouds. Learn about how new features in System Center Data Protection Manager, Virtual Machine Manager, Operations Manager, App Controller, Orchestrator, and more. #TEVIR201

Deep Dive on Windows Server Active Directory PowerShell

Mudassir Ali — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:43 GMT

Wondering how you can leverage Windows Server Active Directory PowerShell to achieve certain tasks and maximum efficiency on your job? In this demo-packed session, learn how to use new and existing Windows Server Active Directory PowerShell in action and learn tips and tricks that will leave others wondering how you did it. #TESIA404

Troubleshooting Federation, ADFS, and More

John Craddock, Lu Zhao — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:43 GMT

"If the problem persists, contact the administrator of this site and provide the reference number to identify the problem. Reference number: 551e28c1-e9f1-4622-aa1d-dff0065e33b1e." Is that administrator YOU? If so, this session is a must. In this session John Craddock shows you how to troubleshoot federated identity with Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS), third-party identity providers, federation partners, Microsoft SharePoint and Microsoft Office 365. Learn exactly what traffic to expect on the network, how to analyze the payload, how to enable and view the claims transformations via the security logs, and other debugging techniques. This session is packed with useful tips and techniques acquired from John’s experience of deploying federated for enterprise customers. #TESIA403

The Cryptography Chronicles: Explaining the Unexplained, Part 2

Andy Malone — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:43 GMT

In part two of this two-part series Andy Malone focuses firmly on putting cryptography to work. Including technologies like EFS, PKI, IPSec, and BitLocker. This session offers tips, tricks and guidance on how to get it right and avoid the pitfalls. Part two also focuses on current and emerging cryptographic developments. We examine their strengths and weaknesses and discuss exactly what they mean for you. If you are responsible for security, network administration, or just want to learn more about this dark art then this double session is an absolute must.

The Cryptography Chronicles: Explaining the Unexplained, Part 1

Andy Malone — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:43 GMT

Cryptography, for thousands of years has helped keep secrets safe from our enemies, competitors, and thieves. Today we live in a world where technology evolves at breakneck speed and the need to maintain confidentiality and integrity of information is paramount to both business and governments alike. In this first part of a two-part series, Andy Malone takes you on a journey inside cryptography. From its humble beginnings to its history and its amazing developments. You not only learn key cryptographic skills, but also how to think and talk like a real crypto geek. Learn how to unravel secrets from both the classical and modern era. So if terms like SSL, IPSec and AES give you a headache then don’t worry! This 75min session explains exactly what they mean, how they work, and more importantly what can they do for you.

Windows Server 2012 Dynamic Access Control Deep Dive for Active Directory and Central Authorization Policies

Matthias Wollnik, Siddharth Bhai — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:43 GMT

How does Dynamic Access Control affect Active Directory Domain Services? Come to this session and find out how it works! This session provides a technical deep-dive on Dynamic Access Control specifically targeted to the AD Administrator. Topics include the mechanics of Active Directory claims, central access policies, new authentication and authorization capabilities, the latest guidance on AD token bloat, and more. #TESIA405

Defense Against the Dark Ages: Your Old Web Apps Are Trying to Kill You

Aaron Margosis — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:43 GMT

The web browser is the primary path that malware uses to get on users’ computers. Web browser security (especially Windows Internet Explorer) has improved dramatically in the past few years to defend against evolving threats. However, continuing to build and maintain web apps using old practices defeats many of these improvements and leaves your users’ computers more vulnerable than ever. In this session, learn why those formerly accepted (or at least tolerated) practices are surprisingly harmful and now must be updated. Learn ways to update web apps quickly so that you can adopt more secure practices without stopping your business.

Planning, Designing, and Deploying a Highly Available AD RMS Infrastructure

Ana Gabriela Hernandez Garcia, Jovita Nsoh — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:43 GMT

Companies are looking up to Microsoft for guidance on: Protecting information from unauthorized view and unwanted disclosure; Enabling Regulatory Compliance and IP Protection; Enabling Secure Business Process Automation; Enforcing Corporate Policy and controlling Information Protection centrally; Enabling Communication in Mixed Environments; and more importantly, making sure that the solution is highly available, elastic, always on and resilient. This session uses sample projects, field-tested and sound high-availability techniques to discuss how you can build a highly redundant and resilient Active Directory Rights Management Services (AD RMS) infrastructure for your customer. #TESIA323

Directory Graph API: Drill Down

Edward Wu — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:43 GMT

This session introduces the new Directory Graph API, a REST-based API that enables access to Windows Azure Active Directory (Directory for Office 365 Tenants and Azure customers). We review the data directory model, the Graph API protocol (based on Odata V3 protocol), how authentication and authorization is managed, and demonstrate an end-to-end scenario. We walk through sample code calling the Directory Graph API. A roadmap is also reviewed. #TESIA322

What's New in Windows Identity Foundation in Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5

Vittorio Bertocci — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:43 GMT

With .NET 4.5, WIF gets a major update and is now directly part of .NET itself. Every Principal class in .NET now derives from ClaimsPrincipal, making claims ubiquitous in every .NET application. This session gives a quick intro to WIF itself, followed by a tour of the new tooling and demos of the most common scenarios. It then mentions some of the new features of WIF and .NET 4.5, and closes with some indications on how to migrate WIF 1.0 code to WIF 4.5. #TESIA321

The Evolution of Active Directory Recovery

Ulf B. Simon-Weidner — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:43 GMT

An Active Directory failure is the most critical disaster in most organizations, and the infrastructure has changed: virtualization provides benefits, but also risks. Active Directory Recycle bin helps with recovering, but not in every situation. GPMC and the new Windows Backup can help, but you still need additional knowledge. In this session we take a geek view of Active Directory Backup and Recovery in various versions of Windows. Learn what you need in your backups, what you need to prepare for recovery, what the issues are and how to solve them. We look at different stages of Operating Systems up the the next generation Windows Server 2012 and learn where knowledge needs to complement features and how new possibilities will help you in planning your disaster recovery strategy. After this session you can start right away to implement topics we discussed and will be ready to deploy your first Windows Server 2012 domain controllers. #TESIA319

Managing and Extending Active Directory Federation Services

Brian Puhl — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:43 GMT

So, you installed Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS), and maybe even federated with an application or Microsoft Office 365. Now what? Come learn how MSIT has customized and extended their ADFS experience. Learn the basics (and the not-so-basic) of customizing the user experience, so your users don't even know they are using ADFS. Come join us as we talk about the overall approach that we're taking to ADFS customization, and then dive into some code examples—and lessons learned—and hear first-hand tales of how an Identity Architect learned to relax and love Visual Studio. #TESIA318

Active Directory Virtualization Safeguards and Domain Controller Cloning with Windows Server 2012

Manu Pushpendran — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:43 GMT

Virtualization is a key technology underpinning and enabling both private- and public-cloud deployments. In this session, we discuss the technical details surrounding domain controller virtualization safeguards in Windows Server 2012 that prevent certain Hypervisor capabilities (when used with virtualized domain controllers) from disrupting the Active Directory system and potentially introducing a permanently divergent state. Beyond simply making virtualized domain controllers safer, Windows Server 2012 also more fully exploits the capabilities of Hypervisors by enabling the rapid deployment of replica DCs through virtual disk cloning—cloning largely requiring only a simple file-copy of the virtual domain controller’s virtual disk file (VHD) and the creation of basic configuration instructions. The ability to clone virtual domain controllers takes Active Directory’s support for virtualization to the next level enabling rapid deployment of greenfield Active Directory environments and significantly reducing scale-out and disaster recovery time. #TESIA317

Windows Server 2012 Dynamic Access Control Best Practices and Case Study Deployments in Microsoft IT

Brian Puhl, Matthias Wollnik — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:43 GMT

Microsoft IT is one of the first early-adopters of the Dynamic Access Control feature set, deploying multiple business scenarios to achieve Data Governance. This session explains how Microsoft is currently configuring central access policies in Active Directory and deploying them to file servers. We discuss best practices that will help you get a head start on using Dynamic Access Control in your organization. #TESIA316

Making Entitlements in Active Directory Understandable to the Business

Rob de Jong — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:43 GMT

Today, access entitlements to applications stored in Active Directory are expressed through rights and security groups. Learn about new techniques Microsoft is using to provide more control to the business decision-maker in Microsoft Forefront Identity Manager and related technologies. #TESIA314

Self-Service Password Reset for Active Directory with Microsoft Forefront Identity Manager 2010 R2

Jeff Staiman — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:43 GMT

Forefront Identity Manager 2010 R2 will introduce dramatic changes to its self-service password reset capabilities which will simplify its deployment and unblock many customer scenarios. This session provides in-depth technical information on the key changes coming in Forefront Identity Manager 2010 R2 for password reset, and the impact on system requirements and deployments. #TESIA313

What's New in Active Directory in Windows Server 2012 (repeats on 6/13 at 3:15 pm)

Dean Wells — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:43 GMT

Sysinternals Primer: Gems

Aaron Margosis — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:43 GMT

In the latest edition of the popular Sysinternals Primer series, join Aaron (Mark Russinovich’s co-author of The Windows Sysinternals Administrator’s Reference) as he goes mining for gems. Uncover buried tips and tricks to get the most out of popular tools such as Process Explorer and Process Monitor. Discover treasures among the least-known Sysinternals utilities – tools that you would have been using if you had only known about them sooner. The Sysinternals utilities are vital tools for any computer professional on the Windows platform. Mark Russinovich's popular "Case Of The Unexplained" demonstrates some of their capabilities in advanced troubleshooting scenarios. This complementary tutorial series focuses primarily on the utilities themselves, deep-diving into as many features as time will allow.

Cybercrime: Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Smart Devices!

Andy Malone — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:43 GMT

Smart phones, slates, tablets. The increasing proliferation of these new and increasingly sophisticated smart devices is simply mind boggling. But just what are the security implications of allowing users to have these in the workplace? With computer crime on the rise and the increasing use of social media how can the modern business protect itself from fraud, espionage, time wasting and confidentiality breeches. In this fascinating session, Andy Malone provides clear advice, tips, and tricks on what you can do in order to protect your business in this new frontier.

Windows 8: Malware Resistant by Design

Nathan Ide, Chris Hallum — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:43 GMT

Join us to learn how Windows 8 has been built from the ground up to be malware resistant by design. In this discussion we provide an overview of our end-to-end malware resistance strategy and then we drill down into the details of two new malware resistance related features named Trusted and Measured boot.

Antimalware Smackdown

Scott Wu, Frank Simorjay — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:43 GMT

From our ongoing dialog with our customers we've learned that they are eager to understand the dynamics of the malware ecosystem and antimalware solutions. The evolving malware industry poses great challenges for antimalware researchers to keep pace with attackers' methods in order to stay ahead of them. This presentation highlights key findings on malicious software and potentially unwanted software as well as some important case studies. It shares the advanced malware protection research and technologies of Microsoft Malware Protection Center (MMPC), the endpoint, the back end, the cloud-based components and infrastructure that address the scalability and complexity of the malware ecosystem, and underscores the importance of timely protection. It presents the data-driven protection story of Microsoft antimalware solutions by deep diving into key areas such as on-demand, real-time protection, unknown threats, performance, cloud security, heuristic detections, signature updates and deployment processes, false positive prevention and resolution, and web security, and it explains how these key areas connect to the underlying advanced technologies to showcase the strengths of Microsoft Forefront.

The Ultimate Guide to Building Wireless Network Security

Hasain Alshakarti — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:43 GMT

Wireless is getting more and more interesting as a primary communication channel for many of our users and devices today, including an increasing number of mobile devices such as tablets and phones, making the Enterprise Wireless LAN security a persistent concern for every system and network administrator. This session provides best practices to establish and manage security, privacy, and extensibility of wireless networking in today’s enterprises including mobile users, smart phones and business line wireless devices using the built-in components of Windows Server and client. A step-by-step and demo-based approach is used to achieve the desired results looking at WPA, WPA2, 802.1x, Certificate-based authentication, Network Access Protection, and how to effectively build a sustained solution. Note: This session is an evolution of the TechEd NA 2011 "The Ultimate Guide to Wireless Network Security" that focused on the threats. This session focuses on building secure wlans and countermeasures.

Towards Privacy by Design: The Microsoft Experience

Javier Salido — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:43 GMT

In this session we discuss Microsoft’s internal privacy process, one that is responsible for ensuring that privacy needs are taken into account throughout the product development process and into the management of personal information within the company. We look at the process of governance, the roles and responsibilities that come into play, and some of the tools used in that process. We complete the session with a look at some of the guidance and tools that Microsoft has made available to its customers and partners to implement their own privacy programs.

Learning the Basics of Penetration Testing!

Marcus Murray, Hasain Alshakarti — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:43 GMT

Penetration testing is an important part of improving security in any network environment. A hacker usually only needs to find one or a very few weaknesses in order to compromize important IT-systems. Therefore, it´s important that you can identify your weaknesses and mitigate them. In this session Marcus Murray and Hasain Alshakarti demonstrate the methods and tools used by professional testers today to identify all your hidden vulnerabilities. This session is a must for anyone working with IT-infrastructure and network services.

Advanced Persistent Threats (APT): Understanding the New Era of Attacks!

Marcus Murray — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:43 GMT

Malware Hunting with the Sysinternals Tools

Mark Russinovich — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:43 GMT

This session provides an overview of several Sysinternals tools, including Process Monitor, Process Explorer, and Autoruns, focusing on the features useful for malware analysis and removal. These utilities enable deep inspection and control of processes, file system and registry activity, and autostart execution points. Mark Russinovich demonstrates their malware-hunting capabilities by presenting several real-world cases that used the tools to identify and clean malware, and concludes by performing a live analysis of a Stuxnet infection’s system impact.

Crouching Admin, Hidden Hacker: Techniques for Hiding and Detecting Traces

Paula Januszkiewicz — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:43 GMT

It is always a ‘cat and mouse’ game! Funny and scary at the same time. When you try to get access to the victim’s computer, all your moves are logged, but computer owners don't always check for them. If they check, you are in trouble unless you delete the traces or fake your identity. If you fake your identity, somebody sooner or later will find you. Really?! Sounds like the never-ending skill fight! If you are interested in advanced techniques for hiding and detecting traces, techniques for launching malicious apps, debugging Windows, cheating on malware and playing with Windows working as a honeypot—this session is for you!

Ten Deadly Sins of Administrators about Windows Security

Paula Januszkiewicz — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:43 GMT

Only 10?! Security audits are the best opportunity to become familiar with the common and uncommon security mistakes made by administrators. The reasons of misconfiguration are very typical: lack of time, lack of monitoring systems, lack of knowledge. Often, common mistakes are very serious and can lead to some serious security breaches. Nobody likes when the passwords of your users are being cracked, right? Nobody likes to see this in the audit report. During this intensive and very technical session, Paula shows you the commonly seen ‘infrastructure sins’. Of course there are more than 10…, but if you start to fulfill all of these shown on the session, your network will become significantly more secure!

A Lap Around Windows Azure Active Directory

Vittorio Bertocci, Stuart Kwan — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:43 GMT

Windows Azure Active Directory provides easy-to-use, multi-tenant identity management services for applications running in the cloud and on any device and any platform. In this session, developers, administrators, and architects will take an end to end tour of Windows Azure Active Directory to learn about its capabilities, interfaces and supported scenarios, and understand how it works in concert with Windows Server Active Directory. #TESIA209

Demystifying Microsoft Forefront Edge Security Technologies: TMG and UAG

Richard Hicks — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:43 GMT

This session provides an overview of Microsoft Forefront edge security technologies - Unified Access Gateway (UAG) and Threat Management Gateway (TMG). It explains in detail what the capabilities of each system provide and describes how they are similar and how they are different. It also reviews several common deployment scenarios and demonstrates which product to use and why. #TESIA208

Windows Server 2012 Dynamic Access Control Overview

Gunjan Jain, Nir Ben-Zvi — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:43 GMT

This session provides an overview of the new Dynamic Access Control capabilities built into Windows Server 2012 and how it can best be leveraged for Compliance and Data Leakage Prevention to enable Data Governance. Administrators now have greater control over file server data by leveraging Active Directory claims, a more robust ACL model, Active Directory centralized authorization/auditing policy, and data classification. This session provides an overview of the principal Dynamic Access Control scenarios, showcases the data classification toolkit and integrated partner solutions, and provides a foundation for the Dynamic Access Control breakout sessions. #TESIA207

Keep Your Data Safe! Introduction to Information Protection Technology

Josh Heller — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:43 GMT

In a world with evolving security threats, protecting your organization's data is a key part of a defense in depth strategy. Learn how to use Microsoft technology to introduce a layered Information Protection solution to keep data safe and secure. #TESIA206

Running Active Directory on Windows Azure Virtual Machine

Dean Wells — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:43 GMT

With the introduction of virtual machines in Windows Azure, it is now possible to host Active Directory to support your Windows Azure applications and solutions. For example, you might host Active Directory to support hosting a SharePoint solution in Windows Azure. This session covers several common scenarios, the solution architecture for each, and gives practical details on how to set it up. #TESIA205

Cloudy Weather: How Secure Is the Cloud?

David Aiken — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:43 GMT

Security is a top priority when considering moving applications to the cloud. Does Windows Azure provide the rock-solid security required for the most sensitive data and applications? How do you ensure privacy of sensitive information? How do you secure access to applications? What if you have strict compliance requirements? In this session we explain the security features and compliance levels of Windows Azure and also give guidance on how you can use the features available to build solutions that meet your security requirements. #TESIA204

Security Experts Panel Discussion: (BYOD + Hactivism) = Gen Y Hacker

Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:43 GMT

For more than two decades, people have struggled to understand the cyber threat, evaluate the risks to individuals and organizations (including nation-states), and craft appropriate responses. Today we see the emergence of a newer Gen Y threat that blends hacking with activism in new and creative forms. At the same time we see enterprises rush to accept bring-your-own-device (BYOD) to work models. Are the new cyber threats going to require a new way of thinking? Have the risks risen to an all-time high with the BYOD evolution? Join our Security Expert Panel to discuss the emerging changes in cyber threats that force us to rethink the ways we think about and take action against them.

Microsoft Trustworthy Computing Cloud Security, Privacy, and Reliability in a Nutshell

Frank Simorjay — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:43 GMT

As customers contemplate cloud migrations and request insight and direction, their top-level cloud trust needs have remained consistent: They demand that vendors offer credible explanations for how they achieve security, privacy, and reliability in their online service offerings. The purpose of this session is to explore Microsoft’s underlying commitment to security, privacy, and reliability while citing its experience and expertise, regardless of which element of the cloud is being discussed. Key discussions: Security and privacy are the foundation upon which all Microsoft products and services are built; Microsoft cloud operations are reliable and enable individuals and organizations to better protect sensitive information; Microsoft mobilizes significant global resources to respond quickly, comprehensively, and effectively to unexpected incidents.

Cyber Security Defenses: What Works Today

Laura Robinson, Roger Grimes, Mark Simos — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:43 GMT

This session covers tips for defending against current attackers in the form of recommendations for both IT/IS Management prioritization and technology configuration/integration. This session also includes a live demonstration of an attack tool used to compromise credentials. Attacker threats have shifted from nuisance mass malware to advanced espionage and exfiltration of intellectual property, creating a need to change paradigms of network defense. Attackers have become sophisticated in both attack methodologies and in navigating business/social structures to obtain the information they want. This session focuses on what defenses have proved effective and what defenses are designed to mitigate attack methods in current use. This session is intended for both IT professionals and IT managers working to build an effective defense against cyber-attackers. Session content includes guidance on how to identify what assets to defend as well as technical topics including: Identify and protect intellectual property that is valuable to the organization (and valuable to potential attackers); Effective Workstation and Server Defenses, run standard users without local administrative access, use of Smartcards or other multi-factor authentication, implementing exploit mitigation technologies including EMET, patching and compliance, creative destruction - phasing out risks from legacy software and operating systems; Protecting Active Directory and Administrative Accounts/Credentials/Rights, credential hygiene as a Pass the Hash Defense, delegating to least privileges with Role based access control (RBAC) and Privileged Identity Management (PIM). As attacker tactics can shift by week, we will reserve extra time during the session for questions and answers.

Deep Dive on SharePoint Ribbon Development and Extensibility

Chris O'Brien — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:43 GMT

Take advantage of the Ribbon in your SharePoint applications for a tightly integrated and great user experience! Developers can customize and extend the Ribbon for custom solutions. In this session we examine the different components of the Ribbon as well as how to create page components, asynchronous callbacks and prompt the user with intuitive dialogs. Best of all you can do all this from the sandbox and avoid getting admins involved in deploying farm solutions!

Application Lifecycle Management: Automated Builds and Testing for SharePoint Projects

Chris O'Brien — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:43 GMT

Whether experienced or novice, most SharePoint development teams can improve their processes, and this session looks at how Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server and Visual Studio can help—specifically with automated WSP builds and Visual Studio 2010 UI testing (which can have a much lower barrier to entry than unit testing). When a few of these capabilities are strung together, the results are incredible for dev teams. Over several demos, we cover how to get started with automating the build, deploying the resulting WSPs to a remote SharePoint environment, then automatically running UI tests against the site. We show examples of testing custom functionality, and share lessons learned from implementing these techniques in the real world.

Security Design with Claims-Based Authentication

Nathan Miller, Israel Vega — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:43 GMT

Have you considered connecting Microsoft SharePoint to Windows Live ID, Windows Azure or more than one Active Directory Federation Service (ADFS)? In this session, we discuss some things to consider when implementing claims-based authentication with SharePoint. We demonstrate Windows Azure Access Control Service (ACS), claims augmentation with ADFS and SharePoint, a custom claims provider, and more.

Advanced Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Upgrade Troubleshooting

Todd Klindt, Shane Young — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:43 GMT

The upgrade process from SharePoint 2007 to SharePoint 2010 is pretty smooth, as long as nothing is customized. In the real world though, customizations are aplenty and they must be dealt with. In this session we cover how to troubleshoot upgrade errors. We use out-of-the-box tools as well as other free tools. We also go over as many of the common problems we've seen as time allows. By the end of this session, you will have an arsenal of tools that can be used to fix any upgrade problem that SharePoint can throw your way.

Making the Most of Search in Microsoft SharePoint Online

Corey Roth — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:43 GMT

Finding content is more important than ever. Whether your deployment is on-premise or in the cloud with SharePoint Online, your users want a great search experience. In this session, learn how you can customize search in SharePoint Online. Learn how to create custom queries, scopes, and more. Learn how to tweak the CoreResultsWebPart and other web parts in the search center to provide great looking search results. Developers will learn how to query the search web service from a custom Silverlight applications to deliver a rich interactive user experience. Implement the skills you learn in this session and your users will absolutely love you!

Branding and Customizing My Sites with Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010

John Ross, Randy Drisgill — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:43 GMT

The My Sites capability of SharePoint 2010 is the backbone of SharePoint's social capabilities. In this session, we cover how to customize your My Site deployment and how to apply custom branding. We also discuss how you can effectively control which web parts are deployed to your users.

Step-by-Step: Building Search Driven Applications That Matter

Scot Hillier — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:43 GMT

Search-based solutions are applications that use a search page as the primary interface, such as image or travel search in Bing. Microsoft SharePoint 2010 offers developers new ways to extend search and create search-based solutions. In this session, learn to create solutions such as task management, calendar management, navigation, and cloud connectors. The aim of this session is to prove that a wide variety of customer requests can be solved with a search-driven app. Attendees will leave with many new ideas for using search to deliver end-user productivity.

Exploring the Power of Page Layouts in SharePoint 2010 WCM Sites

John Ross, Randy Drisgill — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:43 GMT

Page Layouts are a key part of any SharePoint Server 2010 WCM implementation. Just about every SharePoint WCM site requires hundreds or thousands of content pages that have all been created based on Page Layouts. In this session we’ll discuss the different pieces that make up a Page Layout and show you how to create and customize one. Then we’ll show you how to plan for Page Layouts in your WCM strategy and explore how you can leverage page layouts to solve common WCM scenarios. Finally discuss best practices for deployment and maintainability of page layouts. Whether you are just looking to understand more about Page Layouts or looking to create and customize your own page layouts there should be something for everyone.

Why Microsoft SharePoint and Windows Azure are Just Plain Better Together

Steve Fox — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:43 GMT

In a world where SharePoint is a dominant collaboration platform, a common question is how do Windows Azure and SharePoint play together? You’d be surprised at the number of ways in which you can tie these two technologies together. And in this demo-heavy session, learn how you can integrate SharePoint and Windows Azure through Azure Connect, streaming cloud-based media, developing and deploying code to Windows Azure, and leveraging relational data from Microsoft SQL Azure. If you’d like to understand the different paths to integrate SharePoint and Windows Azure, then you can’t miss this session!

Best Practices for Building Your Website for Scale with Microsoft SharePoint 2010

Joshua Stickler — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:43 GMT

This session from the SharePoint product team provides a set of best practices for designing, developing, deploying, and operating large Internet sites built on SharePoint for Internet Sites 2007 and 2010—based on the product team’s experience with sites like Microsoft.com and other large customer sites. The talk provides recommendations for all stages of the website lifecycle, including recommended architecture and implementation approaches, support limits and other “gotchas” to be mindful of, and practical suggestions for how to address common business problems that don’t map directly to product features.

Best Practices for Deploying Microsoft Project Server 2010 on a SharePoint Farm

Gary Crich — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:43 GMT

Are you interested in deploying Microsoft Project Server 2010, but don't know where to start? In this session we provide you with an overview on how to deploy Project Server 2010 in a SharePoint 2010 Farm. Specifically, we discuss how to deploy Project Server in an existing or separate farm, asses the proper capacity planning, and how to tackle upgrading and migration.

Building Microsoft SharePoint Online Applications in a Hybrid World

Chris Johnson — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:43 GMT

Want to learn about how to leverage your on-premise SharePoint and line-of-business data in SharePoint Online? Come and learn about various techniques to build applications on SharePoint Online that connect to and surface your data wherever it may live. We cover using SharePoint Online, Windows Azure, Azure Service Bus, SQL Azure, JSONP, and more.

To the Cloud, from the Trenches: Best Practices for Migrating to Microsoft Office 365

Jorge Diaz — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:43 GMT

Office 365 can simplify your environment considerably, but often you need to navigate a complex and unique IT environment to get there. You may be stuck on a legacy platform or maintain a mish-mash of disparate systems. You may be a small team to a large, multi-national corporation spanning the globe. In this session we review several tried and true strategies for migrating to Office 365. These strategies include understanding the existing environment, tools, and techniques for planning a migration, tools for migrating from non-Microsoft platforms, scripting and other tools to automate migration tasks, and strategies for bringing environments up to required levels. After this session you will know how even the most complicated IT environments can begin to take advantage of the cloud.

Microsoft Office 365 Service Reliability and Disaster Recovery

Kumar Venkateswar, Bharath Rambadran — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:43 GMT

If you are wondering how Office 365 is architected for less than a few hours of lost productivity per year, even in the light of extreme disasters, this is the session for you! We talk about the design and delivery of Office 365, and how this not only enables you to meet your availability goals today and tomorrow, even with datacenter-destroying fires or ice storms, earthquakes or floods, at a low cost per user.

Microsoft Office 365 Security, Privacy, and Trust

Alistair Speirs — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:43 GMT

Some of your most important considerations when evaluating a cloud solution should be the provider's privacy and security practices. Microsoft strives to take a leadership role in industry privacy, security, and compliance practices by following our Trust principles. This session focuses on the Trust principles of Office 365, our cutting edge security practices, transparency policies, respect for your privacy, and compliance of the service with industry standards.

Active Directory Integration with Microsoft Office 365

Jono Luk, Ross Adams — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:43 GMT

This session is intended to discuss in-depth the different Identity options, Identity architecture and features that enable an organization to integrate their on-premise Active Directory to Office 365. This includes such items as Single Sign-on and Directory synchronization. Learn what the requirements are for integrating your directory and how federated authentication works together with other benefits that Directory integration provides.

Microsoft Office Deployment for the Elite

Jeremy Chapman, Yoni Kirsh — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:42 GMT

Office deployment in large organizations can be a daunting task. Many tools exist to make life easier, but how do you get the most out of them? This session is a deep dive into various Office deployment and compatibility scenarios, including: • Customization of user settings and Ribbon UI • Lock down Office with Group Policy • Office 365 Professional Plus image preparation with Microsoft Deployment Toolkit 2012 • Leveraging user adoption resources in your migration project • Dynamic role based Office deployment using Microsoft System Center 2012 Configuration Manager • Office compatibility planning and remediation Learn how to use these applications effectively and efficiently, and wield them to your best advantage. We demonstrate how you can script these tools to build on their functionality, providing superior outcomes and consistent results.

The Modern Compatibility Process to Accelerate Microsoft Office Deployment

Curtis Sawin — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:42 GMT

Don’t let Office file and solution compatibility concerns delay your Office and Office 365 deployment project. Using the wrong process to address compatibility planning can lead to extended (and costly!) deployment projects. The key to keeping your deployment project on track is utilizing the right process and leveraging tools appropriately to understand the potential risks. Join us to hear some real-world war stories and learn how to adopt the latest version of Microsoft Office faster and cheaper, while managing your risk – leaving you in a more agile position for the future.

Optimized Desktop Deployment Jeopardy Live Game Show

Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:42 GMT

After a long week of sessions, sit back and relax while desktop deployment gurus battle to prove who knows most about the dirty details of deploying Windows and Microsoft Office using tools like Windows AIK, MDT, OCT, OMPM, ACT, System Center and all of the great in-box utilities like DISM, BCDBOOT, OSPP.vbs in Office. We go into deep detail, show common error codes and troubleshooting, highlight things broken and fixed with latest product, solutions and service pack releases, and try to have the best time doing it!

Supporting Microsoft Office in an Enterprise Environment

Will Brandt — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:42 GMT

During this session we discuss tools and techniques that can be used to troubleshoot Microsoft Office in the enterprise. The focus of this session is troubleshooting Outlook, but we also cover Word, PowerPoint, and Excel. Along the way we discuss some best practices to prevent problems from occurring. Office 2010 is used for demonstration purposes, but many of the tools and techniques covered in this session can also be applied to other versions of Office.

Building Integrated Microsoft Office 365, SharePoint Online, and Office Solutions Using BCS and LOB Data

Donovan Follette — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:42 GMT

Business Connectivity Services (BCS) is now available in Office 365 tenancies worldwide, providing a host of new opportunities for developing business solutions for SharePoint Online. These include connecting to both on-premises or cloud-based data sources via BCS by tapping into Windows Azure technologies such as Service Bus, SQL Azure, Access Control Services and Windows Azure hosted WCF services. This session describes the architecture for these solutions and shows how to leverage no-code capabilities and develop code-based components for building line-of-business productivity solutions that span SharePoint Online, the Office clients, and Windows Phone.

Turning Project Data into Real-World Reports: An Overview of Business Intelligence Options

Andrew Lavinsky — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:42 GMT

Learn how Microsoft Project Server 2010 leverages existing SharePoint BI tools to provide elegant reporting options to the enterprise. Attend this presentation to see how Project Server data may be surfaced using such tools as Business Connectivity Services, Visio Services, Excel Services, PerformancePoint and the REST API. Specific reporting examples are provided that may be easily reused at any level of organizational project management maturity.

Managing the SharePoint Disruption with End-to-End SharePoint Governance

Dan Holme — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:42 GMT

In many organizations, SharePoint is a disruptive technology: It’s no longer business-as-usual for users, for developers, for IT, or for the enterprise. SharePoint shines a spotlight on everything that’s good and bad about your business processes, project management, change management, information management policies, and IT service delivery. Governance—from the business strategic to the technical level and everywhere in between—is critical. Microsoft SharePoint MVP Dan Holme shares the experience and lessons learned from thousands of IT professionals, managers, developers, end users, and CIOs around the globe. This comprehensive discussion highlights the business, cultural, and technical impact of SharePoint on an organization, and the steps you can take to plan for and implement SharePoint as a platform that will scale to support your dynamic requirements. You will take away a framework within which to understand and communicate the role of SharePoint in your organization, a proven process with which to translate requirements to architecture, a punch list of issues to consider in your architecture and governance design, and an understanding of the technical, cultural, and procedural components of a successful SharePoint implementation.

36 Terabytes: How Microsoft IT Manages SharePoint in the Enterprise

Nate Bruneau, Jim Adams — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:42 GMT

Microsoft’s internal SharePoint services currently provides 180,000 global users a comprehensive collaboration experience hosting 36 terabytes of content across three regional data centers. Learn how Microsoft IT architected, deployed, and manages its SharePoint enterprise services as well as how the Cloud is changing the way we do business.

Developing and Managing SharePoint Solutions with Microsoft Visual Studio

Jay Schmelzer — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:42 GMT

In this demo-heavy session we explore the tightly integrated support for SharePoint development in Microsoft Visual Studio 2010. See the built-in support in Visual Studio for creating the most common customizations including custom web parts, event receivers, workflows, and more. Learn how ALM capabilities available in Visual Studio Ultimate and Team Foundation Server can be applied when working with SharePoint. We finish the session with an early look at some of the new Microsoft SharePoint 2010 support coming in the next version of Visual Studio.

Microsoft Office 365 Management and Deployment

Alistair Speirs, Marcus Hass — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:42 GMT

Office 365 has been continually improving the ease of migration and will continue to do so in the future. In this session understand the investments that are being made to simplify deployment, management, and administration of Office 365 through the portal, tools, and automation.

Microsoft Office 365 for Education

Andy O'Donald — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:42 GMT

Office 365 for Education is the service replacing Live@edu, with rich collaborative services through Microsoft Exchange Online, Office Web Apps, Microsoft Lync Online, and Microsoft SharePoint Online. This session covers key education-specific scenarios that Office 365 addresses with demonstrations, and dives into the organizational prerequisites for an Office 365 for Education deployment. The session also covers the benefits inherent in Microsoft’s cloud such as our security and privacy policy and data center resiliency.

Empowering Small Businesses: Microsoft Office 365 P-Suite

Jamie Mann, Brett Hill — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:42 GMT

Office 365 is the online service combining the Exchange Online, Office Professional Plus, SharePoint Online, and Lync Online. There are multiple versions of the service for various types of customers, including Small businesses, Enterprises, and Education. This session is a detailed review of the Small Business offering designed for customers with 1–25 users. It focuses on how the Small Business is different from the Enterprise version, considerations for choosing the service that best meets your needs, and also an overview of the Office 365 Small Business Service itself and how to get started including domain name validation, differences in user accounts password policies, and how SharePoint Online security for the P1 plan users differs from E plans.

Microsoft Office 365 for Enterprises

Angela Livermore — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:42 GMT

Office 365 is the online service offerings of Microsoft Exchange Online, Microsoft SharePoint Online, Microsoft Lync Online, and Office Professional Plus. This session introduces you to Office 365 and some of the enterprise considerations when leveraging the cloud. We recap the full capabilities of the service and drill into the improvements that have been made to the service since its launch.

Microsoft Excel: A Web Development Tool?

Steve Hansen — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:42 GMT

Recently Microsoft has expanded the reach of Excel Services by allowing developers to use the Excel Services JavaScript object model on any website to access and manipulate Excel workbooks stored on SkyDrive. Come to this session to learn how and why to leverage this exciting functionality and add another technique to your web development arsenal.

Business Intelligence in Microsoft Office and SharePoint 2010

Seayoung Rhee — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:42 GMT

What separates the Microsoft Business Intelligence platform from the competition? Be armed with the Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010 integrated analytics platform that allows your customers to discover and share business insights in dynamic business environments. Come see demos of the integrated platform across Microsoft SQL Server, SharePoint and Office as well as global case studies from the field. We show the solution roadmap with the key features SharePoint provides for Business Intelligence applications through collaboration dashboards, multidimensional reports and self-service analytics.

Microsoft System Center 2012: Managing Heterogeneous Environments with a Microsoft Private Cloud

Matt McSpirit — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:42 GMT

Today, many of you will be virtualizing your workloads with VMware vSphere, but organizations wishing to move to the private cloud are looking beyond just VMware’s technologies. In this session, we explore how System Center 2012, along with value-add solutions from Partners such as Veeam, give datacenter administrators the management capabilities they need to efficiently monitor and operate their private cloud on top of VMware vSphere. We look at configuration and deployment of virtual machines and services, monitoring key applications and workloads, and much more! #TEMGT333

Fighting Fire to the Cloud!

Walter Eikenboom — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:42 GMT

IT Admins are responding to incidents on a day-to-day basis, but management wants to shift to service monitoring. The biggest mismatch there is the maturity level and misconception that technology will fix the GAP. We know that’s not true! Walter Eikenboom shows you how to get from component monitoring to LOB application monitoring with Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2012 and changing the operational paradigm to a private cloud service connecting System Center Orchestrator and System Center Service Manager 2012, creating processes to get your infrastructure to a private cloud. Stop fighting fire and start building your cloud today! #TEMGT332

Top 10 Production Experiences with Microsoft System Center Service Manager and System Center Orchestrator

Nathan Lasnoski — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:42 GMT

Microsoft MVPs share their top production experiences with Service Manager and Orchestrator. Hear about best practices from implementations serving thousands of users and crazy interesting application automation. Find out what you need to know about these tools before you deploy. #TEMGT331

Private Cloud Service Delivery and Automation with Microsoft System Center 2012

Sean Christensen — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:42 GMT

Service delivery and automation with the System Center 2012 suite is about delivering IT services effectively and consistently. This session covers how the System Center 2012 suite of products supports the delivery of IT services through process and systems automation. This session also focuses on the monitoring and operating aspects of service delivery and automation through the System Center 2012 suite such as building an integrated cmdb and driving proactive and reactive processes. #TEMGT330

Microsoft System Center Service Manager 2012: Data Warehouse, Reporting, and Dashboards

Sean Christensen — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:42 GMT

Service Manager 2012 introduces a new reporting capability that spans the System Center suite. This session presents the new capabilities of the Service Manager data warehouse and how to take advantage of the cross product capabilities provided with the new data warehouse architecture. #TEMGT329

Automating Datacenter Using Microsoft System Center 2012

Harpreet Singh Rana — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:42 GMT

This session covers how the new capabilities in System Center 2012 enable automation for the Private Cloud in Datacenter. Integration with System Center 2012 including Virtual Machine Manager, Orchestrator, and Operations Manager are discussed. It will include how the Service Catalog, Portal, Request Process, and CMDB features in System Center Service Manager 2012 can be used by self-service, and automation. #TEMGT328

Preparing for "The Big One": Protection and Recovery Using New Capabilities of Windows Server 2012 and Microsoft System Center 2012 SP1

Hector Linares, Vishal Mehrotra — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:42 GMT

In today’s dynamic datacenter, it is critical to protect workloads against a wide range of potential failures. IT Pros do so by configuring workloads to be highly available and resilient to failures. In the rare event of a failure, workloads need to be recovered from backup and brought up in an expedient manner. Windows Server 2012 and System Center 2012 SP1 provide a variety of tools to help IT Pros in this regard. These include enhancements to the Windows failover clustering infrastructure, System Center Virtual Machine Manager & optimized protection using System Center Data Protection Manager leveraging CSV 2.0, Remote SMB, De-Dupe and public cloud . #TEMGT327

Enabling Hosted IaaS Clouds for Service Providers Using Microsoft System Center 2012 SP1 with Windows Server 2012

Marc Umeno, Eric Winner — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:42 GMT

Come to this session to learn about new capabilities for enabling hosted infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) in Microsoft System Center 2012 SP1 using Windows Server 2012. System Center Service Provider Foundation provides a REST OData API for hosted IaaS clouds providing multi-tenancy and federation across multiple System Center instances. Virtual Machine Manager is adding increased support for network virtualization, tenant customer self-service, and using enterprise identity with hosted infrastructure. App Controller provides enterprise self-service access to hosted IaaS clouds. Learn about best practices for architecture, configuration, and operations of hosted IaaS clouds. #TEMGT326

From Opalis to Orchestrator and Microsoft System Center Service Manager 2010 to 2012

Ranganathan Srikanth, Eamon O'Reilly — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:42 GMT

This session presents supported upgrade scenarios, recommends upgrade best practices, explains tools, documents and resources that will help you upgrade a Service Manager 2010 production installation to Service Manager 2012. In addition, do you have a bunch of Opalis Policies that you need up and running in Orchestrator? Have you hesitated to migrate away from OIS? Would you like to know some tips/tricks to ensure the transition goes smoothly? Whether you are a beginner or expert, join us for a discussion on what to look out for, what will be easy, and what will take some planning when migrating from "Policy" to "Runbook" in System Center 2012 - Orchestrator. #TEMGT325

Backup Your Private Cloud Workloads Before It's Too Late

Orin Thomas, Mike Resseler — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:42 GMT

You’ve moved a substantial amount of your organization’s critical services and applications across your new private cloud—but how can you determine if it has been properly protected? You can’t perform a trial recovery after each backup to verify that everything is working as it should. This session walks you through automating the protection of common private cloud workloads using Microsoft System Center Data Protection Manager, Orchestrator, Operations Manager, and Service Manager. We also cover how you can monitor the integrity of each workload’s protection, allowing you to ensure that SLA requirements are being met. #TEMGT322

Service Template Creation from the Ground Up

Stephen Baron — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:42 GMT

We all know that you can create a service template and deploy services within Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager (VMM), but what does it look like under the covers? What is a Custom Resource, how do you create it, and what does VMM do with it? How do you create a SQL Template VM (what if you don't want the SQL tier to run in a VM)? How does Server App-V fit into all of this? This session walks through all of the internals of the Service and VM Templates and how they are used to build a service within VMM, including best practices. #TEMGT321

Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012: Zero to Cluster to Cloud

Greg Cusanza — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:42 GMT

I have three Bare Metal machines, and I want to make them into a Hyper-V cluster using Virtual Machine Manager. How do I do this? This session includes a walk-through of the entire process end-to-end including Windows PE customization, VHD creation, pre-deployment GCEs for raid configuration, host GCEs for NIC teaming, allocating storage, and creating the cluster. #TEMGT320

Infrastructure Management: Configure and Deploy

Eric Winner — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:42 GMT

As you are transitioning to a private cloud, you have to take into account how you manage the compute, storage, and networking fabric of your infrastructure. After you have configured the fabric, you will abstract these from the underlying physical infrastructure and create your private cloud, creating delegated access for your self-service users. #TEMGT319

Patch and Settings Management in Microsoft System Center 2012 Configuration Manager

Wally Mead, Mark Florida — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:42 GMT

With the release of Desired Configuration Management in Configuration Manager 2007, organizations were given the ability to define models of Operating System, Application, Update levels, and more. This approach to managing systems now evolves in Configuration Manager 2012 to provide a state-based foundation of the Application Model, User Centric computing, and model-based compliancy. In this session we cover the next release of DCM, called Settings Management, and demonstrate why this is such an important feature for organizations today trying to lower their costs. This session also covers Software Update Management, which builds on Configuration Manager 2007, providing many popular enhancements from customer feedback to this important feature. #TEMGT318

Overview of Microsoft System Center 2012 SP1 - Virtual Machine Manager Services

Stephen Baron, Rajeet Nair — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:42 GMT

System Center 2012 Virtual Machine Manager introduced the concept of Services which provides IT Pros a mechanism to codify application deployment on their virtual infrastructure. This provides repeatability and automation for deploying applications. This session offers an overview of Services and enhancements in SP1. #TEMGT317

Overview of Microsoft System Center 2012 SP1 - Storage Management

Hector Linares — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:42 GMT

Windows Server 2012 introduces core capabilities that enable storage automation scenarios like end-to-end discovery and mapping, host and cluster storage management, and rapid provisioning. This also enables new capabilities around storage pool management, a new provider model for storage arrays, and a pass through mechanism that Virtual Machine Manager will leverage to enable NAS device management, fabric discovery, zone management, and storage array. This session is a deep-dive into the new storage API with demos, code samples, and scripts. #TEMGT316

Network Management in Microsoft System Center 2012 SP1 - Virtual Machine Manager

Greg Cusanza — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:42 GMT

With the advent of Windows Server 2012, multiple isolation capabilities like Hyper-V network virtualization are surfaced through Virtual Machine Manager in a simple, discoverable way. In this session, we cover details of setting up infrastructure for supporting multiple tenants who can bring their own IP addresses to the hosters cloud, use duplicate IP addresses, use VLANs, and offer port capabilities provided by virtual switch extensions. #TEMGT315

What's New in System Center 2012 SP1 - Virtual Machine Manager

Vijay Tewari — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:42 GMT

Windows Server 2012 introduces a cloud optimized OS. This session provides an overview of how a customer can build out a private or hosted cloud solution using Windows Server 2012 and System Center 2012 SP1 - Virtual Machine Manager using core capabilities such as Hyper-V Virtual Networking, support for Hyper-V over SMB, Virtual Switch extensions, and core scale and perf enhancements. #TEMGT314

Microsoft System Center 2012 Configuration Manager: Plan, Deploy, and Migrate from Configuration Manager 2007 to 2012

Wally Mead, Bryan Keller — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:42 GMT

Building on the Deployment and Infrastructure Design session, this technical session walks you through planning and deploying a Configuration Manager 2012 hierarchy, including migration from an existing Configuration Manager 2007 hierarchy. Learn about the various migration scenarios, tools such as Package Conversion Manager (PCM) and Physical-to-virtual (P2V), and share best practice guidance as your customers go to Configuration Manager 2012. #TEMGT313

Deep Application Management with Microsoft System Center 2012 Configuration Manager

Adwait Joshi, Bryan Keller — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:42 GMT

Configuration Manager 2012 allows users to be productive from anywhere, on both corporate and consumer devices. It evaluates device and network capabilities to deliver applications in the most optimal way for the user, whether that is through a local installation, streaming through App-V, or a presentation server like integration with Citrix XenApp. Configuration Manager gives users access to any business applications on a wide array of mobile platforms. In this session we provide a deep technical overview of the new application model and end user application catalog that delivers this flexible working environment. #TEMGT312

Microsoft System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Deployment and Infrastructure Technical Overview

Wally Mead, Bryan Keller — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:42 GMT

System Center Configuration Manager helps IT to streamline operations with a unified infrastructure that integrates client management and protection across mobile, physical, and virtual environments. A strong engineering investment has been made in optimizing the site and hierarchy architecture for the Configuration Manager 2012 release. This session examines the changes and provides guidance on how best to design and deploy an optimized Configuration Manager 2012 infrastructure. We cover site server roles, boundary management, Role Based Administration, Discovery, Inventory, content deployment, and changes to Collections. #TEMGT311

Microsoft System Center 2012 Endpoint Protection Overview

Mark Florida, Adwait Joshi — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:42 GMT

Microsoft Forefront Endpoint Protection is now System Center Endpoint Protection. Attend this session to discover what's new and how System Center 2012 Endpoint Protection is integrated with System Center 2012 Configuration Manager. You will see the new and easy way to deploy endpoint protection in your enterprise and learn about the consolidation of client management and security infrastructure. #TEMGT310

Microsoft System Center 2012 Configuration Manager Overview

Wally Mead, Mark Florida, Neha Bajwa — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:42 GMT

Are you ready for System Center 2012 Configuration Manager? It's just around the corner and is the most important release for client administrators! Configuration Manager 2012 will manage heterogeneous devices and introduces a new way to deploy applications—capabilities that will allow client administrators to enable Consumerization of IT. But, there is more: NEW interface, improved setting management, role based administration, and infrastructure reduction. Come to this overview session to get up to speed on all the new capabilities of Configuration Manager 2012. #TEMGT309

Massively Multi-Instance: Building and Deploying Microsoft System Center Operations Manager Management Packs in the Enterprise

Alec King — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:42 GMT

Join Alec King, author of Veeam’s nworks MP for VMware, to learn about Operations Manager management pack architecture for enterprise environments. Discuss best practice for designing your own MPs, pain points and pitfalls of configuring and deploying vendor MPs, and advanced MP authoring topics such as agentless management, data cookdown, and discovery thrashing. Review the new features available in Operations Manager 2012 for high-availability and load-balanced proxy monitoring. Take away tips and tricks learned while building the market-leading MP for monitoring VMware environments, and ensure you successfully scale in your enterprise Operations Manager deployment. #TEMGT308

How to Have Microsoft System Center 2012 Operations Manager Work for You: Lessons Learned, Beyond the Install

Brad Bird — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:42 GMT

System Center 2012 Operations Manager is the best-of-breed in monitoring from Microsoft. Once it is installed, a wealth of information about the environment is obtained. Here are some lessons learned on how to not become overwhelmed with the plethora of information. Although Operations Manager is a highly customizable product and there are many reasons to leverage in-depth management pack authoring, there are many customizations which administrators can perform from the Operations console to ensure success with Operations Manager beyond the initial deployment. #TEMGT307

Tips & Tricks for Creating Custom Management Packs for Microsoft System Center Operations Manager

Mickey Gousset — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:42 GMT

To really tap into the power of System Center Operations Manager, you have to start building custom management packs. This session provides you with all the tips and tricks you need to build successful custom management packs, from what tools to use, to how to build custom composite modules for complex monitoring scenarios. All of these tips and tricks are based on real-world implementations of custom management packs, and will work for both SCOM 2007 and 2012. #TEMGT306

Application Management in Private and Public Clouds

Sean Christensen — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:42 GMT

In this session we look at how we configure, deploy, manage, and operate services in the private cloud, how we deploy and monitor Windows Azure applications, and how we consolidate Azure subscriptions with App Controller to allow organizations to delegate access to them. We discuss how IT can provide Application owners and developers with access to rich performance monitoring information with deep code-level insight into how the application is performing for the end user. We look at Application Self Service, Quotas, Delegated resources, managing application resources, and the setup and configuration of application performance monitoring. #TEMGT305

Cloud? It's All about the App!

Maarten Goet — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:42 GMT

The applications to empower our businesses are what we should focus on. We should choose the platform to host the application that best meets the needs, whether it's a public cloud (Windows Azure) or a private cloud (Hyper-V). In this session Maarten Goet, five-year Microsoft System Center MVP, shows how System Center can help you make those choices and provides integrated management for all cloud worlds. He demonstrates Hyper-V with System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2012 and System Center App Controller 2012 with Azure and provides you with a practical approach to embracing the right cloud for your application. #TEMGT304

What's New in Microsoft System Center 2012 SP1 - App Controller: Managing Applications Across Cloud Environments

Yuan Zheng (VM), Tabrez Mohammed — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:42 GMT

Simplify managing all of your applications across cloud environments from a single integrated tool. This session provides an overview of the latest functionality in App Controller including support for new Windows 8 clouds offered by service providers and taking advantage of Windows Azure IaaS. We cover the basics for deployment of App Controller and configuring connections to Virtual Machine Manager (VMM) private clouds, Azure subscriptions, as well as connecting to cloud infrastructure at a service provider. We then dive deep into managing application resources and service templates, how to deploy/control services regardless of the cloud they run on, and moving existing VMM based workloads to Windows Azure. #TEMGT303

Application Monitoring with Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2012

Aakash Mandhar, Daniele Muscetta — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:42 GMT

In this session we provide a summary of the application monitoring capabilities enabled through System Center 2012 Operations Manager against Microsoft .NET and Java applications, covering the platforms and supported configurations. See how System Center 2012 Operations Manager can provide critical availability, performance, and reliability information without requiring any custom instrumentation to the code or custom management packs. #TEMGT302

Microsoft System Center 2012 Operations Manager – An Overview of What’s New

Ilarie Letca, Åke Pettersson — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:42 GMT

In this overview session we provide a summary of all the major changes in Operations Manager 2012 and what new functionality has been included. We cover advanced topics like APM and our X-Platform capabilities. #TEMGT301

Licensing Your Public and Private Cloud with Microsoft Office 365, Windows Azure, SQL Server and System Center

Mark Croft — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:42 GMT

One of the challenges for organizations wanting to move to the public and private cloud is learning how this will affect existing investments in software licensing. In this session, we review how Microsoft updated the Enterprise Agreement (EA) to protect your existing investments while enabling you to license a broad range of online services, spanning public, private, and hybrid cloud scenarios. We cover recent licensing updates for Microsoft SQL Server and Microsoft System Center and as well as have on hand a panel of licensing experts to answer your specific licensing product or program questions.

Lync Deep Dive: Edge Media Connectivity with ICE

Bryan Nyce — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:42 GMT

This session provides in-depth information on how we establish media connectivity using ICE, STUN, and TURN. We discuss how clients and server find and allocate IP addresses locally and on the Edge Server to find the optimal media path. We discuss the theory as well as look into logs to see this magic happen. We also discuss why this knowledge is very important when troubleshooting connectivity problems.

Best Practices in Securing Your Microsoft Lync Server 2010 Edge Servers

Rui Maximo — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:42 GMT

Lync Edge Server provides federation and remote user access. As an entry point to the corporate network, it's important for administrators to understand these threat vectors and how to defend against them. Come learn the intricate details of how security works in the interaction between the Lync client and the Edge Server. Tips and tools are provided. Don't miss out!

Lync 2010: Planning Voice Deployments

Subbu Chandrasekaran — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:42 GMT

The communications industry is undergoing a transformation from proprietary hardware-based communications systems to a more flexible software-based solution as provided by Microsoft. During this transformation, customers who have existing investments in infrastructure will need to ensure that these systems work well with Microsoft Lync 2010. In this session we show the different scenarios in which Microsoft Lync 2010 can co-exist with IM and Presence systems, PBXs and leading video infrastructure depending on the customer’s requirements.

Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 High Availability Deep Dive

Scott Schnoll — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:42 GMT

Go beyond the basics of Exchange High Availability and learn what's really going on under the hood in an Exchange 2010 database availability group (DAG). This session covers the inner workings of DAGs, including a deep dive discussion on how DAGs rely on quorum and how the DAG witness and witness server are used. It also provides a solid understanding of the inner workings of Active Manager and its best copy selection process.

Lync 2010: Planning Voice Features

Subbu Chandrasekaran — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:42 GMT

Lync Deep Dive: Dial Plans and Voice Management Deep Dive

Javed Tufail — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:42 GMT

Dial Plans are an essential piece in the integration between Lync and public telephony. This session dives deep into call processing in Lync in order to understand what the requirements to dial plans are. We discuss in detail how phone numbers should be designed and dialing should be set up, as well as about routing and call authorization.

Lync and the Enterprise Network

Bryan Nyce — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:42 GMT

Everything you need to know about how Microsoft Lync works with the Enterprise Network. Learn all about new features like Call Admission Control and how the Lync media stack interacts with policy across the wide area network, improvements in Quality of Service tagging with DSCP and VLAN support, how partners are bringing optimized network solutions to market for Lync, and understanding bandwidth planning and requirements for enterprise deployments.

Microsoft Lync 2010: Availability, Resiliency, and Recovery

Paul Brombley — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:42 GMT

High availability and disaster recovery mean different things to different people. The reality is that failures come in many shapes and forms. Learn about the features in Lync to address failures and how they can be used to achieve your SLA. Planning beforehand and knowing the options you have are key to success. It is too late when a failure hits to find your solution doesn't behave the way you planned.

Microsoft Lync 2010: Planning for Conferencing Deployments

Paul Brombley — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:42 GMT

This session discusses planning for conferencing deployments using Lync 2010.

Forget about IT: How about Lync Inside Business Applications?

Albert Kooiman — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:42 GMT

Consumerization of IT has brought an irreversible shift of power from IT to the Business where IT is no longer king. Come learn about the 5 ways Lync can supercharge and automate business processes! Demos, real-world examples, iPads and Slates, case studies... we've got it all. Bring your stories too!

Microsoft Lync 2010: Server and Client Virtualization

Campbell Gunn, Tarek Radi, Mark Coleman — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:42 GMT

This session provides guidance around virtualization of Lync 2010 Server and Client.

Lync 2010: Unlocking Your CORE CAL with Lync

Marc Perez — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:42 GMT

This session is designed to provide both a high-level overview of the Lync features that come as part of the CORE CAL, as well as an in-depth look at the Lync Server deployment process. The focus of the overview will be on understanding Lync Server’s native integration with other Office applications and what server topologies enable this functionality. Following this will be a clear and detailed review of the deployment process, which will include a live implementation of Lync Server. Attention will be given to the key improvements from previous versions of the product, particularly the changes in tools and supportability that make deploying a Microsoft Unified Communications platform simpler and faster than ever.

Real World High Availability and Site Resilient Design

Robert Gillies — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:42 GMT

If you attended EXL401, you got a good, deep understanding of how the HA features of Exchange 2010 work, but how do you apply those features in a real world environment? This session will talk about some real customer issues and some of the most heard questions around how to best architect to meet your messaging high availability and site resilience requirements with Exchange 2010 SP2.

Using a Load Balancer in Your Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Environment

Jaap Wesselius — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:42 GMT

Microsoft has been promoting Network Load Balancing (NLB) in an Exchange Server environment for years, but is now recommending using hardware load balancers. This offers lots of opportunities, like the use of multi-role Exchange deployments where the Mailbox, Client Access Server and Hub Transport Server Roles are combined on one machine. But at the same time hardware load balancers will present the Exchange administrator with various different Exchange settings and network scenarios. In this session Jaap wesselius, a five-year Exchange Server MVP demonstrates what it takes to build a Highly Available Exchange Server 2010 solution with a Database Availability Group (DAG) in conjunction with a hardware load balancer solution. Learn all about Exchange Server 2010 load balancing requirements, Single Arm and Dual Arm configuration, persistence, affinity and stickiness options for the various Exchange services and Microsoft recommendations.

Best Practices for Virtualizing Microsoft Exchange Server 2010

Jeff Mealiffe — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:42 GMT

This session covers both the requirements and best practice recommendations for running Exchange Server 2010 in a hardware virtualization environment. If you’re running or planning on running Exchange in a virtualized environment, you won’t want to miss this session. We'll cover best practices for server deployment, storage configuration, sizing, and consolidation. We'll also cover some of the latest updates in this area including new support for Jetstress validation on virtual deployments.

Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 SP2 Tips & Tricks (repeated from 6/11 at 3pm)

Scott Schnoll — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:42 GMT

This session continues the 14+ year tradition of the Exchange Server Tips & Tricks presentation. Learn how to get more out of Exchange 2010 SP2 in this session, packed with new tips and tricks specific to SP2.

Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 SP2 Tips & Tricks (repeats on 6/13 at 3:15pm)

Scott Schnoll — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:42 GMT

An Inside View of Microsoft Exchange 2010 SP2 (repeats on 6/13 at 10:15 am)

Jeff Mealiffe — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:42 GMT

Exchange Server 2010 SP2 was released at the end of 2011 and brought with it some fantastic new features. Come hear from the product group about OWA Mini, the Hybrid Configuration Wizard, and OWA Cross Site Silent Redirection. We will discuss the shift in our guidance for hosting providers and explain how we have tamed the beast of GAL Segmentation into simple, reliable, and predictible Address Book Policies. We will also describe the general process that the product group uses to create service packs and rollups. This session is not to be missed!

Configuring Hybrid Exchange the Easy Way

Neil Axelrod — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:42 GMT

Come learn about the new Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 Service Pack 2 Hybrid Configuration Wizard, what it does, and take a look inside at how the “Hybrid Configuration Engine” works. Whether you intend to deploy a hybrid Exchange model indefinitely, want to deploy Exchange Online Archiving or see it as seamless migration experience to the cloud, we go over details on how to be successful in your deployment, discuss the common pitfalls and how to avoid them.

Archiving in the Cloud with Exchange Online Archiving (EOA)

Bharat Suneja — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:42 GMT

Exchange Online Archiving (EOA) is a cloud-based email archive for on-premises Microsoft Exchange Server 2010. This session walks through end-to-end set up of EOA, provisioning archives for your users, and use of EOA.

How to Tell Your Manager You Need Quotas on Your Mailboxes

Bhargav Shukla — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:42 GMT

As systems offer bigger and bigger mailboxes and Microsoft has published whitepapers on large mailbox vision, it is important to understand the infrastructure to support such designs, what your company desires, and what the cost and operational impacts are. This session provides intelligent discussion about factors involved and cost benefits, to help you drive your infrastructure towards better manageability and stability.

Getting Microsoft Exchange and SharePoint to Play Together

J. Peter Bruzzese — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:42 GMT

Whether you deploy Exchange and SharePoint separately or at the same time through Microsoft Windows Small Business SErver (SBS), these two do not just talk to each other without a little help. Incoming and Outgoing configuration settings need to be configured and users need to understand the value of using Microsoft Outlook to work, not only with Exchange, but with SharePoint.

Understanding Microsoft Forefront Online Protection for Exchange

Robert Gillies — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:42 GMT

Outsourcing your mail filtering is nothing new, however that doesn't mean it isn't a complex area which needs careful consideration and configuration. In this session we introduce the capabilities of Forefront Online Protection for Exchange (FOPE) before diving into a demo based walk through of its configuration. We cover standalone FOPE used to protect an on-premises deployment of a messaging platform and then cover the differences when using FOPE with Microsoft Office 365. Finally we get into the detail of routing topologies covering how mail flows in different scenarios from standalone, to Office 365 passing through Hybrid on the way.

Identify and Fix Performance Problems with Visual Studio 2012 Ultimate

Benjamin Day — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:42 GMT

It’s a common problem: you’re getting close to when you’re supposed to deploy your new ASP.NET or WCF application into production and somehow it just doesn’t seem very fast. Yikes! You’ve got performance problems. Thankfully, Visual Studio 2012 has some great features to help you out of this bind. This session starts out with a running web application with performance problems and shows you how to find and fix these problems using web performance tests, load tests, unit tests, performance explorer, and code profiling. Along the way, we discuss what a Load Test Rig is, how to set up a Load Test Rig, and how Team Foundation Server can help you to catch performance issues *before* they become problems.

Testing Un-testable Code with Fakes in Visual Studio 2012

Peter Provost — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:42 GMT

One of the most challenging things developers face when unit testing their code is writing good tests that exercise only the parts they want to test. Dependencies outside your code are the number-one cause of slow, brittle unit tests. In this talk, we go deep on a new feature in Visual Studio 2012 called Fakes that you can use to create better unit tests. Using real code examples, we show you how fakes help you get those hard-to-test things tested, and provide guidance on how and when to use it.

Deep Dive into Team Foundation Server 2012 Reporting

Steven Borg — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:42 GMT

This sessions dives deep into understanding Team Foundation Server 2012 reporting. We very briefly overview the provided reports, both SSRS and Excel that come out of the box, before diving into what makes these reports possible. We dive into the behind-the-scenes data stores: the TFS_Warehouse and the OLAP cube, and understand their relationship as well as their structure. Then we step back up into the world of reporting where we create and extend reports from WIQL queries (built-in capability), create new Excel pivot-table reports and host them on a SharePoint portal, and modify SSRS reports. Finally, we look at how to make decisions about what data to capture to help drive overall process improvement.

Nokia with Windows Phone: Learning How to Tile

David Middleton, Kalle Lehtinen, David Mason — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:41 GMT

Come and hear how we bring to life Nokia Lumia – our smartphones based on Windows Phone. See the exciting technologies we are working on for our smartphones. Understand the journey we have taken and how we are enabling you in your adoption of Windows Phone. Learn from companies how they are deploying Nokia Lumia to support their businesses, including Nokia.

Creating LOB Metro style Apps in XAML Using Microsoft Expression Blend and Visual Studio

Jeffrey Ferman — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:41 GMT

Learn how to embrace the Metro style UI design principles in your LOB app by utilizing Blend and Microsoft Visual Studio to their full potential. In this session we focus on building an end-to-end LOB app starting with the in-box templates and a common design pattern (MVVM). We then expand to cover key design patterns and Windows 8 features such as navigation, commanding, app bars, theme transitions, and contracts.

A Lap Around Microsoft Expression Blend for HTML

Kirupa Chinnathambi — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:41 GMT

Learn how to use Blend to visually construct, style, and layout Metro style apps using HTML. Learn how to start from scratch and have a fully functioning (and visually appealing!) application that highlights how to work with styles, controls, data sources, layout, CSS3 transitions, and many other features that help you create a better user experience with greater productivity.

Essential Tips for the Windows Azure Startup

Michele Leroux Bustamante — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:41 GMT

A startup often needs to build something fast and show traction, but also wants to create a solid foundation for the product roadmap—all while operating on a minimal budget and few resources. While a lot of this is up to you, certainly the Windows Azure Platform and related development and management tools can help you build quality applications, rich in features, and help you deploy, manage and monitor those applications in a lean startup environment. In this session we talk about building applications for the Windows Azure Platform with a startup mentality. We build a web application based on HTML 5, MVC 4, CSS 3 and JavaScript, and expose services built with the ASP.NET Web API, and discuss how to deploy them together and scale them out later including domain mapping considerations. The application leverages blob storage; implement queued, asynchronous work; include caching features; and leverages access control for the authentication flow. We touch on the decisions you'll need to make related to role allocations, noSQL and traditional RDBMS, choice of queuing mechanisms, and security architecture. We also talk about how you deploy and monitor your application with few resources. The goal: to give you essential tips that will help you be quickly successful with your first live application in the Windows Azure Platform without sacrificing a quality implementation.

Building Metro style Apps with HTML and JavaScript

Paul Gusmorino — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:41 GMT

Let’s build a Windows 8 Metro style apps using HTML and JavaScript! Learn how to use the Windows Library for JavaScript, the Windows Runtime, and Visual Studio to implement a metro style app that takes advantage of common user experience patterns and seamless integration with the operating system.

Advanced IntelliTrace in Production with Visual Studio 2012

Larry Guger — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:41 GMT

Did you ever have that bug that you just could not reproduce? Not getting enough information from production environments to really solve your problems quickly? Why does it always take way longer to figure out what the problem is then to make the fix? In this session, see how IntelliTrace, within Visual Studio 2012, gives you the ability retrieve rich, detailed information about problems, even in production, enabling you to spend less time on bug diagnostics and more time writing software.

Dev-Ops Best Practices on the Microsoft Stack

Victor Mushkatin — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:41 GMT

Building a high-quality code is essential, but only matters when the application is in production. In this talk, learn how Visual Studio 2012 and System Center 2012 tools can work together to improve deployment integration and application maintenance throughout the application lifecycle. Understand how to integrate the development and operations parts of your business, using Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2012, System Center 2012 – Orchestrator, System Center 2012 - Virtual Machine Manager, advanced monitoring using latest Application Performance Management features of System Center 2012 – Operations Manager, and troubleshooting by leveraging Visual Studio Team Foundation Server Work Item Synchronization, and Visual Studio IntelliTrace.

From Development to Production: Optimizing for Continuous Delivery

Jamie Cool, Chris Patterson — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:41 GMT

In this talk we build a services application from scratch using Visual Studio, Entity Framework POCO, and Team Foundation Server. See how development patterns like dependency injection and persistence ignorance can be combined with the new Visual Studio 2012 unit testing support to create high quality applications. Evolve the application with migrations of the data layer from staging and testing through production deployment, and then combine all of these techniques with lifecycle support for continuous integration and continuous deployment.

Building HTML and JavaScript Apps with KnockoutJS and MVVM

John Papa — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:41 GMT

Do you write a lot of HTML and JavaScript code to push and pull data? In this session, learn popular techniques to use data binding to bind your data to your target controls in HTML writing less code, but gaining more power. See how to consume json data, use json objects in JavaScript, use declarative binding, using KnockoutJS. Also, see how to use the MVVM pattern to write data centric JavaScript code that follows good separation patterns and creates highly maintainable code.

Building Windows 8 Apps for the Enterprise

Robert Green — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:41 GMT

In this session, we look at building Metro style line-of-business (LOB) apps. We discuss why you want to build Metro style LOB apps, and explore strategies for working with data, including accessing internal information, data entry, local data storage, and syncing data. We cover how to authenticate using corporate credentials and how to deploy the app.

The Developer Opportunity: Introducing the Windows Store

Drew Robbins — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:41 GMT

In this session, we show the many different ways to monetize your application, including subscriptions, trial apps, advertisement, and in-app purchases. We cover the end-to-end lifecycle of an application, from developer registration and application submission to analytics and feedback.

Integrating with Windows 8 Experiences

Chris Mayo — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:41 GMT

Contracts are agreements between Windows and your Metro style app that allow you to integrate Windows 8 features into your app. For example, Windows 8 lets users share content from one application to another by using the Share contract. In this session, learn how contracts work and how to implement the built-in contracts such as Search, Share, Settings, and Play To.

Building Windows 8 Metro style UIs

Paul Gusmorino — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:41 GMT

Windows 8 is Windows re-imagined. Join this session to learn about the new platform for building Metro style applications. Get an understanding of the platform design tenets, the programming language choices, user experience patterns, and the integration points with the operating system and across Metro style apps.

Building Metro style Apps with XAML: What .NET Developers Need to Know

Tim Heuer — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:41 GMT

If you are experienced with Microsoft .NET or Silverlight and are already familiar with XAML, this session teaches you everything you need to know to create a Metro style app for Windows 8. This session covers updates to familiar features and explores concepts that are new for Windows 8. This session shows you how to turn your XAML skills into money-making Metro style apps.

What Web Developers Need to Know When Building Metro style Apps

Scott Dickens — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:41 GMT

Get started writing Metro style apps using your existing HTML5, JavaScript, and CSS skills today! Discover how Metro style application development mirrors or differs from traditional web programming and how to harness the rich capabilities of Windows 8 through JavaScript and the Windows Runtime. Leave armed with shortcuts, tips, and expert advice that’ll accelerate your move from web to Windows Metro style apps.

Designing Apps with Metro Principles and Windows Personality

Chris Mayo — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:41 GMT

Windows 8 marks the next step in the evolution of the Metro design language. Through the bold use of color, typography, and motion, the Metro design language brings a fresh new approach to the user experience. In this talk, learn the design principles behind Metro and get insights into how to apply these principles in the design of your own apps.

Using Windows Runtime and SDK to Build Metro style Apps

John Lam — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:41 GMT

Windows 8 is Windows re-imagined. Join this session to learn about the new platform for building Metro style applications. Get an understanding of the platform design tenets, the programming language choices, and the integration points with the operating system and across Metro style apps.

Internet Information Services (IIS) Express for Web Developers

Robert McMurray — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:41 GMT

This technical session focuses on continued investments in IIS Express as a developer server and how they are being consumed by developers in WebMatrix and Visual Studio. Learn some tips and tricks for getting the most out of IIS Express. If you’re not using it, you should be! The benefits are vast. We also explore future plans for IIS Express, and see some peeks into what’s coming in the next version of IIS in Windows.

Building Business Applications with Visual Studio LightSwitch

Jay Schmelzer — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:41 GMT

Visual Studio LightSwitch is the simplest way to create business applications for the desktop and cloud. In Visual Studio 2012 we’ve opened up the LightSwitch application architecture by embracing the OData protocol, making LightSwitch also the simplest way to create a Data Service. LightSwitch continues to simplify the development process by letting you concentrate on the business logic, while LightSwitch handles the common tasks for you. In this demo-heavy session, see end-to-end how to build and deploy a data-centric business application using LightSwitch and how to leverage Data Services created with LightSwitch to make data and business logic available through other applications. In this session you’ll gain an understanding of the LightSwitch application architecture and learn advanced techniques for customizing a LightSwitch application.

What’s New in Visual Studio LightSwitch

Jay Schmelzer — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:41 GMT

All Aboard the Team Foundation Server Express

Martin Woodward — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:41 GMT

Using Team Foundation Server to share your source code, track work and automate builds has never been easier. In this session we dispel the myths for why you aren’t already using Team Foundation Server (TFS). Learn how to install Team Foundation Server 2012 Express and migrate your existing code from Visual SourceSafe or elsewhere. This session also covers additional capabilities of TFS that enable you to set up continuous integration builds with quality gates while documenting and tracking items from your backlog. While most of what we cover is included for free in the new TFS Express product, we also show the additional functionality that you can grow into with a paid TFS instance. If you’ve been thinking about trying Team Foundation Server, now is the time to check it out.

The Accidental Team Foundation Server Admin

Anthony Borton — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:41 GMT

Did you install Team Foundation Server (TFS) one day out of interest and suddenly discover that because you touched it last you are now the de-facto administrator of the single most important system that your entire development team rely on to get their jobs done? Did you inherit an existing installation from someone else and are wondering what you’ve let yourself in for? Are you thinking about installing Team Foundation Server and want to know the gotchas before you get started? Come along to this session to hear the speaker recount the challenges commonly heard from accidental TFS admins and how you can setup and maintain a great Team Foundation Server deployment that your team will love you for.

Developer Collaboration with Team Foundation Server 2012

Jamie Cool — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:41 GMT

With Visual Studio 2012 and Team Foundation Server 2012 there have been a lot of improvements to make developer collaboration even easier. We cover integrated code review, the new “My Work” experience for managing your active tasks, and once you’re “in the zone” we help you stay focused on the task at hand, no matter how much you’re randomized. We walk the full gamut of collaboration improvements, from the newly revamped Team Explorer, to the version control and build improvements. Want to work offline seamlessly? Wish merging happened less frequently and was simpler when it did? How about find work items faster? We talk about all this and more.

Implementing Team Foundation Server in the Enterprise: Guide to a Successful Implementation

Jeff Levinson — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:41 GMT

Implementing a central service in a large organization presents challenges that are both easy to spot and difficult to predict until you start running into problems. This session is a straightforward journey of how one Fortune 500 company implemented Team Foundation Server (TFS) as a central service, migrated teams from various other platforms and managed the day-to-day operation of TFS. This includes interfacing with other parts of the organization that control various aspects of the TFS deployment even though they are not directly involved in the deployment itself. This session covers template management, security administration (including understanding the ramifications of certain decisions), training, supporting .NET and Java and mentoring as well as making your service highly available. For anyone needing to implement TFS in an organization larger than 50 people with roles split among many different departments, this session provides information you can use to avoid some of the walls that other organizations have run into.

Demystifying Team Foundation Server Builds

Mickey Gousset — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:41 GMT

Think Team Foundation Build is too hard for you to use? Don't quite grasp the reason for an automated build process? Then this session is for you. The session starts by building a basic automated build process using Team Foundation Build 2010, and then improves on it, adding more bells and whistles as you go. All the while, you'll also pick up some tips and tricks that you can take back to your own build environment.

Taking Your Application Lifecycle Management to the Cloud with the Team Foundation Service

Martin Woodward — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:41 GMT

You’ve heard about the brand new Team Foundation Service that brings together Team Foundation Server and Windows Azure and now it’s time to find out how to get started. In this talk we start you off with creating your account, setting up projects, issue tracking, and much more. We also show you how Team Foundation Service differs from Team Foundation Server and what that means to you.

Metrics That Matter: Improving Lean and Agile, Kanban and Scrum

Steven Borg — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:41 GMT

This session is born of the hard lessons learned from years of working with diverse companies using metrics to improve their software development processes. Come learn from successes and be warned of failures. This session covers what makes an effective metric, the pitfalls in designing metrics, and the basic principles for using metrics appropriately. We cover many general principles, but dive deeply in the metrics needed for lean and agile software practices, using Kanban and Scrum as our representative methodologies. You’ll leave with a number of good metrics and how to collect them, and more importantly, with a deepened understanding of why measuring the right things is critical, and how to measure those things. For instance, there’s one highly effective metric that can turn a frantically busy and harried team into a team that will deliver more value without feeling overworked! We even lay to rest some enticing, but ultimately harmful, measures like efficiency. In fact, we show you how reducing efficiency can dramatically improve productivity! (Sound impossible? It’s not, and once you’ve seen how, you’ll never look at efficiency the same way again.)

F# 3.0: Data, Services, Web, Cloud...at Your Fingertips

Donna Malayeri — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:41 GMT

Modern programming thrives on rich spaces of data, information, and services. F# 3.0, to ship in Visual Studio 2012, brings integrated support for Information Rich Programming to the .NET platform. F# Type Providers and F# Queries greatly simplify data-rich analytical programming, allowing programmers to easily access and manipulate a variety of data sources. In this session, we introduce these exciting new features and how they can be used to leverage technologies such as OData, ADO.NET Entity Framework, Microsoft SQL Server, WSDL services, Microsoft SharePoint, and Windows Azure Marketplace. This talk will cover basic F# syntax--no prior knowledge of the language is necessary.

Software Testing with Microsoft Test Manager 2012 and Lab Management

Brian Keller — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:41 GMT

In this session we cover the improvements to Microsoft Test Manager 2012 and Lab Management which will make it easier to conduct manual and automated testing across a variety of environments. We cover the new exploratory testing approach offered by Microsoft Test Manager; the simplified setup and administration of Lab Management environments; and some of the other fit-and-finish features across the testing offering.

Creating and Consuming OData Services for Business Applications

Asad Khan — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:41 GMT

The Open Data Protocol (OData) is a REST-ful protocol for exposing and consuming data on the web and is the new standard for data-based services. In this session, learn how to easily create these services using Visual Studio and gain a firm understanding of how they work. Also, see how to easily create and consume these services in your business applications and connect them to other data sources in the cloud to create powerful BI data analysis.

A Lap Around Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) 4.5

Pete Brown — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:41 GMT

WPF 4.5 includes a number of targeted enhancements requested by our customers. During this code-focused session, we take a romp through the new and updated features in the latest version of WPF, drilling down into specifics of the more interesting features designed to help make your application design easier and your applications faster.

The Scaling Habits of Microsoft ASP.NET Applications

Richard Campbell — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:41 GMT

As our ASP.NET web applications become more and more successful we switch our focus from adding feature to performance, scale and management. Richard has been in the lab studying the scaling habits of the average domestic ASP.NET solution and has emerged to discuss his findings (no applications were actually harmed during the capture of this data). Come and learn where ASP.NET stumbles and how to get it back on its feet. In this session, learn about the web acceleration equation, identify common ASP.NET bottlenecks, explore solution alternatives, uncover the secret sauce, and determine a reasonable strategy for scaling ASP.NET applications.

Async Made Simple in Windows 8, with Visual C# and Visual Basic

Alex Turner — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:41 GMT

The new Windows Runtime is adopting a heavily asynchronous programming model to ensure the responsiveness of Windows 8 client apps. This makes it more critical than ever to have great support for asynchronous programming in your programming language. Come learn about the async language innovations coming in C# and Visual Basic and how these new language features come together with new Windows Runtime APIs to simplify asynchronous programming. No more callbacks!

What’s New in Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5

Brandon Bray — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:41 GMT

Microsoft .NET is approaching its ten-year birthday party. A lot has happened in the past decade—.NET 4.5 marks the occasion with many new features and scenarios. While the most exciting of these is support for new features in Windows, we spend the time revealing other elements. Come see some of the library improvements made based on direct customer requests. Learn about the range of new performance features that support everything from small client applications to massively scalable server solutions. Also, learn about async, multi-core JIT, and background garbage collection.

What's New in Windows Workflow Foundation 4.5

Dave Cliffe — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:41 GMT

This session provides a review of the key investments we’re making in Windows Workflows Foundation (WF) in Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5. Come learn about the improvements we’re making for workflow authoring and management, including new activities, designer enhancements, WCF contract support, and versioning.

What’s New in Windows Communication Foundation in Microsoft .NET Framework 4.5

Daniel Roth — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:41 GMT

Come and see how we have enabled new scenarios with Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) in .NET 4.5. Learn how you can use the new WCF support for WebSockets and UDP. See how you can leverage WCF from your Windows applications. Also, see how we’ve simplified WCF across the board including simplified configuration, streaming enhancements, and support for Task-based asynchronous programming.

Visual C#/Visual Basic: Becoming a Guru with Existing Features

Peter Ritchie — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:41 GMT

This session details some of the evolution of the C#/VB syntax. This session will serve as an overview of various language syntax like lambdas, anonymous methods and closures. Included will be examples of how asynchronous programming has evolved in .NET since .NET 1.0, This session will include a brief introduction to the Task Parallel Library, along with a quick refresher on key language syntax.

Beyond Master-Detail: Interaction and Navigation Patterns for Modern User Experience

Billy Hollis — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:41 GMT

With modern UI stacks, it's much more practical to implement new and useful interaction patterns, such as viewports, timelines, dashboards, queues, and configurators. Even traditional patterns such as master-detail drilldown, wizards, and trees gain new capabilities. This session summarizes important and useful interaction patterns, shows real-world examples, and suggests common use cases for them. You'll walk out with a lot of new options for designing your own modern user experience, and some strategies for transforming your current applications to make them more productive and compelling.

Building Windows 8 Metro style Apps with Visual C++ 2012

Raman Sharma — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:41 GMT

Windows 8 comes with a brand new Metro style app experience where native developers and designers can work in parallel. This session covers an end-to-end view of the developer experience for developing Metro style apps using C++, from the solution creation to the marketplace publication.

Continuous Feedback in Agile Teams

Justin Marks, Sebastian Holst — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:41 GMT

How often have you built software that matched what your customers asked for, only to find out when you were ready to ship that it was not quite what they wanted? Have you received conflicting requirements from different customers while building a single solution for both? In this talk, we look at ways in which you can remain focused on customer value, seek different kinds of feedback from stakeholders and customers at critical points in the software development lifecycle, and integrate feedback into the product effectively to deliver an end product that can wow your customers. Through demos, we explore specific examples of seeking, providing, and processing customer feedback and collecting analytics with the new Visual Studio 2012 toolset including PreEmptive Analytics.

Visual Studio Tips & Tricks

Dustin Campbell, Scott Cate — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:41 GMT

Learn how to become a Visual Studio coding guru! In this fast-paced session, learn to write code faster than a speeding bullet, leap around large projects in a single bound, and become more powerful than a locomotive with the debugger. We take a wild ride through C# and Visual Basic IDE features in Visual Studio 2012 and indispensable out-of-the-box solutions that will help you get your job done better and faster.

Working on an Agile Team with Visual Studio 2012 and Team Foundation Server 2012

Peter Provost — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:41 GMT

Visual Studio 2012 and Team Foundation Server 2012 bring a valuable set of new features and capabilities to agile teams. In this talk we take a ride through an example project and show you how an agile team can efficiently prioritize, plan, and deliver high quality software.

Going Beyond F11: Debug Better and Faster with Visual Studio 2012

Brian Randell — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:41 GMT

Visual Studio is the tool of code craftsman yet many developers use its debugging features as if they were a novice apprentice. This session takes you on a tour of the goodness that can be found in the Visual Studio family from Visual Studio Professional to Visual Studio Ultimate. Learn about the hidden gems present in every version as well as time saving features like IntelliTrace. Get the nitty-gritty on how things work and how you can tune the debugger to meet your needs. And, learn how integration with Team Foundation Server Build functionality can make your day-to-day debugging tasks easier and more productive.

Application Lifecycle Management Tools for C++ in Visual Studio 2012

Rong Lu — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:41 GMT

Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) tools are critical for planning, development, testing, and maintenance of native code bases of every size. Visual Studio Ultimate offers many features for managing a C++ code base efficiently and easily. Come join us and see the ALM features in Visual C++ 2010 and what's coming in Visual C++ 2012. You might be very surprised at all the new features for native C++ developers!

Azure Development Using Visual Studio

Paul Yuknewicz — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:41 GMT

Windows Azure and Visual Studio enable you to build the most demanding cloud applications. This session focuses on the productivity enhancements in Visual Studio for constructing, debugging, deploying, and diagnosing cloud apps. We take a deep dive into constructing multi-tier cloud projects and making the most of the local emulator to test and debug. Then we show how it is easier than ever to connect your environment to Windows Azure and publish, leveraging in-place deployment upgrades, configuring multiple profiles for each target deployment environment, and tips and tricks for diagnostics like enabling Remote Desktop. Last, we show how to use Visual Studio to diagnose and fix real issues in the cloud, whether that is runtime errors or performance hot spots. Learn how to make the most of the productivity enhancements direct from the Azure tools team.

Creating Robust, Maintainable Coded UI Tests with Visual Studio 2012

Eric Maino — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:41 GMT

Coded UI tests allow developers to automate important end-to-end scenarios which can then quickly alert the team about regressions. These tests can be created quickly, but as with any automated tests care must be taken to ensure that they remain resilient and can be easily maintained along with your application code. This demo-focused session examines best practices for creating and maintaining coded UI tests, and introduces some of the changes made to coded UI tests in Visual Studio 2012 to support platforms such as HTML5 and Windows applications.

Taking Control of Visual Studio through Extensions and Extensibility

Anthony Cangialosi — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:41 GMT

Do you want to make Visual Studio bend to your will? Are you looking to simplify common tasks for your team or visualize source code in new ways? Are there common practices you want to share across your development team? Visual Studio has a rich ecosystem of extensions that build on top of the great features of Visual Studio and provide useful productivity enhancements for developers. Come hear about some of the extensions out there and then learn how you can start building extensions for yourself, your team, or the community.

Continuous Delivery of Windows Azure Cloud Apps

Paul Yuknewicz — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:41 GMT

Now that you’ve published your cloud app, your delivery process should be automated and hands free. In this session, learn how to automate the build, packaging and deployment process from pure script and optionally, Team Foundation Server (TFS). We cover creating the cloud app package using built-in MSBuild arguments. We then push the package to Windows Azure using a fully customizable PowerShell script. Last, we show how to bring this process together using Team Build in TFS with Azure, so that every check-in can result in a continuous improvement running in Windows Azure.

Building HTTP Services with ASP.NET Web API

Daniel Roth — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:41 GMT

ASP.NET Web API is a new framework in ASP.NET MVC 4 for creating and consuming HTTP services that can reach a broad set of clients, including browser and mobile devices. ASP.NET Web API gives you a first-class HTTP programming model that is symmetrically supported on both client and server. This session shows you how easy it is to create web APIs that implement the uniform interface of HTTP resources. Learn how you can support a wide range of formats (JSON, XML, form URL encoded, custom) and allow clients to specify acceptable response formats using HTTP content negotiation. Learn how to test your web APIs, enable security, diagnose problems, and generate help page information.

JavaScript: The Developer Experience

Jonathan Carter — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:41 GMT

As JavaScript's ubiquity continues to grow, it becomes increasingly harder for developers—regardless what platform they're targeting—to avoid it. To make the choice of adopting it into your applications easier, Visual Studio 2012 has made JavaScript a truly first-class language. This session demonstrates the enhancements that have been made to the editing experience, such as an IntelliSense and formatting engine that was built from the ground up to support modern libraries and coding patterns, as well as the debugging experience that integrates new diagnostic visualizations, such as an editable DOM tree. Whether you're looking to develop a Windows 8 Metro style application, or an HTML5 web application, Visual Studio 2012 JavaScript tooling will help enhance your productivity.

JavaScript: The Language

Luke Hoban — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:41 GMT

JavaScript has become one of the most widely used programming languages in the world, but has also unfortunately remained one of the most misunderstood programming languages. This session gives a thorough review of the core ideas in the JavaScript language, including topics such as objects, conversions, prototypal inheritance, and closures, as well as popular design patterns. We make note of recent additions in ECMAScript 5, and finish up with a look at some of the future directions of the JavaScript language. Whether you are new to JavaScript, or already a seasoned JavaScript developer, this session is your opportunity to get a deep and focused understanding of the JavaScript language.

Developing on Windows Azure: Cloud-Enable Your Microsoft ASP.NET Applications

Sayed Hashimi — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:41 GMT

Cloud enabling your ASP.NET applications is more than simply hosting your app on Azure. Azure provides many services that applications can leverage to ensure they can scale with the demands of your customers. This session discusses how you can develop ASP.NET applications for the cloud and recent changes in Azure that make developing for the cloud easier and better than ever. And finally, learn what you need to know in order to publish your ASP.NET application to Azure. We walk you through services such as BLOB (binary large object) storage, SQL Azure, Service Bus, Caching, and more.

Microsoft ASP.NET and the Realtime Web

Damian Edwards — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:41 GMT

Users want to see results, and they want them right now. As the options for real-time applications grow, so does the demand and the need for you, the developer, to understand the variety of tools available to give users the experience they expect and deserve. This session introduces you to the real-time web techniques available to ASP.NET developers. We take a deep dive into the groundbreaking open source project known as SignalR and demonstrate how it provides a great abstraction to lower level transports like WebSockets, which will be supported natively by IIS 8. Together with the Windows Azure Service Bus, SignalR and the cloud allow for huge scaling possibilities so your users can have collaborative, real-time web, cloud, and distributed applications that work cohesively to offer real-time user experiences.

ASP.NET for Mobile and Tablet Development

Damian Edwards — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:41 GMT

Mobile traffic on the web is exploding. Are you ready? Microsoft ASP.NET MVC 4 includes new mobile-friendly templates, a focus on responsive design, as well as dedicated mobile templates that leverage jQuery and jQuery mobile. The speaker shows what you can do today and tomorrow to make your site friendly on a mobile device. When should your mobile site become a mobile application? Should you use CSS3 media queries, or go “all in” and use jQuery mobile or another mobile framework?

ASP.NET Loves HTML5

Damian Edwards — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:41 GMT

HTML5 is a game changer for the entire industry and opens up new and exciting possibilities for web developers. Come join us for a talk about how Microsoft ASP.NET 4.5 and Visual Studio 2012 makes building web applications using HTML 5, EcmaScript 5 and CSS 3 easier than ever.

What's New in Visual Studio 2012 for Web Developers

Scott Hunter — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:41 GMT

Building websites has become more and more important for most businesses worldwide, and with the introduction of HTML 5 we now have more possibilities than ever. Join us on a journey through the features of the upcoming version of Microsoft ASP.NET and Visual Studio to get a sneak peek on the new abilities and tools needed to build modern websites.

ASP.NET Roadmap: One ASP.NET – Web Forms, MVC, Web API, and more

Scott Hunter — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:41 GMT

Interesting new solutions to internet problems continue to emerge. Realtime, Web APIs, mobile, Gmail-style apps in a single page, and hybrids are the norm. Time to abandon .NET? Let's look at what Microsoft ASP.NET brings to today's Worldwide Web. Microsoft .NET is unquestionably and demonstrably able to scale to monster heights, but can it compete in a realtime and JavaScript heavy world? How will your ASP.NET applications change and what about your existing stuff? Join us as we break down the technologies that you - the ASP.NET developer - have in your toolbox and how to solve today's problems while still having fun and not selling your soul. Does it all fit together into One ASP.NET?

Deep Dive into the Team Foundation Server 2012 Agile Planning Tools

Gregg Boer — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:41 GMT

Visual Studio 2012 and Team Foundation Server 2012 bring a valuable set of new features and capabilities to agile teams. They provide an easy, simple-to-use experience on top of a powerful, customizable platform. In this session we will go deep into the Agile Planning Tools and how to customize them to work the way your team does.

MVVM in XAML: Simple and Easy

Paul Sheriff — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:41 GMT

There are way too many overly complex Model View View Model (MVVM) design patterns and libraries in the development world. How is a programmer that is new to Microsoft Silverlight, Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) or Windows Phone to ever learn how to use MVVM quickly and easily? This session guides you step-by-step through how to take advantage of this powerful design pattern. You don't have to learn any of the MVVM libraries; instead learn how to use your own classes to implement MVVM. The main goal of MVVM is to help you develop code that is testable and re-usable, and this can be accomplished by just using a simple approach to MVVM. You will walk away with some great base classes that will help you incorporate MVVM into your XAML applications.

ADO.NET Entity Framework 4.3 for Real Web Applications

Adam Tuliper — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:41 GMT

There are many demos on the Internet for using the Entity Framework but few seem to address good architectural project structures to use the Entity Framework in a layered application. This talk shows a well structured Visual Studio solution to use the Entity Framework in a new ASP.NET Web Forms and MVC application. In addition this talk covers Code-First and DB/Model First scenarios, POCO entities, the Repository Pattern, Object Contexts/DbContext, querying, and MVC vs. Web Forms implementation differences and the new Code Migrations feature of 4.3.

Introducing the New Visual Studio 2012 Unit Testing Experience

Peter Provost — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:41 GMT

In Visual Studio 2012, we have done a lot of work to improve the developer unit testing experience, particularly for agile teams. We have even made the entire unit testing framework extensible, which will allow you to use testing frameworks such as xUnit.net and NUnit in addition to the unit testing framework built into Visual Studio. In this talk, we present the history of unit testing in Visual Studio, highlighting why we made this change, and then take you through the product, showing off the features we feel are sure to delight developers.

What's New in Visual Studio 2012

Orville McDonald — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:41 GMT

Learn how to become a Visual Studio ninja for the future. Software development continues to make great advances and so does Visual Studio. Come learn about the trends impacting software development and how you can take advantage of them with Visual Studio 2012. This talk provides a brief overview coupled with lots of demos to highlight how Visual Studio 2012 simplifies development, streamlines collaboration for teams, and helps you create apps that your users will love. Visual Studio 2012 helps you turn ideas into software; this session gets you started.

Implementing Scrum Using Team Foundation Server 2012

Richard Hundhausen — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:41 GMT

Today, most Agile teams are using Scrum. Microsoft uses it internally and so do your competitors. It’s time you take a serious look at this framework for managing complex projects, such as software development. In this session, learn how to implement Scrum in Team Foundation Server (TFS) using the Visual Studio Scrum template, new Agile project management tools, and related best practices. We create and manage a product backlog, forecast and plan our work for a Sprint, and manage our Sprint tasks using the new tools in TFS.

Optimizing Your BI Semantic Model for Performance and Scale

Ashvini Sharma, Allan Folting — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:41 GMT

The release of Microsoft SQL Server 2012 allows standalone tabular models. This session goes into the internal architecture of the engine and describes implications on performance and scale of the tabular models and how they can be tuned effectively. #TEDBI414

Many-to-Many Relationships in BISM Tabular

Alberto Ferrari — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:41 GMT

With the introduction of the Vertipaq engine and the DAX programming language, it seems that many-to-many relationships are no longer supported. As shown in this session, this is not true: many-to-many relationships can be leveraged in DAX too, even if this requires some deep understanding of the Vertipaq engine and of the DAX programming language. #TEDBI413

Optimizing Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services for Big Data

Adam Jorgensen — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:41 GMT

Big Data is now a reality and more than ever we are asked to analyze greter volumes of data. Find out how to make Analysis Services work harder and more effectively in this new world of Big Data. Specific strategies will be discussed. #TEDBI412

Integrating SQL Server Filetables, Property Search, and FTS/Semantic Search

Robert Beauchemin — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:41 GMT

The new filetable feature in Microsoft SQL Server 2012 provides new opportunities for server, search, and file system integration. This session focuses on filetable as a substrate for integration of property search and full-text semantic search on a single server (SQL Server) platform. #TEDBI411

SQL Power Tools: Enhance Your Effectiveness with Extended Events

boB Taylor — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:41 GMT

While introduced in an earlier version of SQL Server, Extended Events have been significantly enhanced in Microsoft SQL Server 2012. Learning the use of Extended Events is crucial as they will eventually replace SQL Trace as a troubleshooting tool. Now is the time to learn how to effectively use Extended Events to enhance your skills as a DBA. #TEDBI410

SQL Server Columnstore Performance Tuning

Eric Hanson — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:41 GMT

Columnstore indexes, and a new, vector-based query execution method called “batch mode,” can speed up query processing in data warehouses and data marts using Microsoft SQL Server 2012 by a breathtaking 10X to 100X. This talk describes how to tune indexes, queries, and load processes to help your customers get the most out of columnstore indexes and query execution. Learn secrets that can help you turn modest performance gains into stunning, orders-of-magnitude improvements, and blow away the competition. We focus on how to work around constraints that limit the use of batch processing when outer joins, unions, and certain other constructs are present in queries. We also describe how to load columnstores effectively, and even perform real-time loads on columnstore indexes that are technically read-only. #TEDBI409

Tips & Tricks for Microsoft SQL Azure Federations: How to Build Cross-Federation Queries and Other Tips

Cihan Biyikoglu — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:41 GMT

In 2011, we introduced Federations to enable building large scale solutions on SQL Azure. In this session we cover the best practices and patterns for building database tiers with best of breed scalability with databases stretched over to hundreds of nodes and with TBs of data and with thousands of concurrent users in the cloud. We cover issues such as scale-first database design practices and designing fan-out queries and dealing with identity generation. If you are architecting systems that need to go beyond the capacity of a single node in the cloud, systems that need to handle spikes and bursts, or systems with multi-tenancy and elasticity for great economics, this is the session for you. #TEDBI408

Auditing in Microsoft SQL Server 2012

Il-Sung Lee — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:41 GMT

The ability to audit user operations has become a fundamental requirement for database systems. Much of this is being driven by compliance regulations that require companies to be able to answer questions such as, "Who accessed your sensitive tables in the last week?" Or "What has your administrator changed in the past month?" Fortunately, SQL Server provides an integrated audit feature that makes answering these and other questions easy. Come to this session for an in-depth discussion around the SQL Server Audit feature and learn about the recent enhancements while understanding how it can be used to help satisfy the customer's security and compliance requirements. #TEDBI407

Back to Indexes: The Original Culprit

Amit Bansal — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:41 GMT

Yes, indexes still remain the main bottleneck when it comes to performance; especially when your data grows big. In this demo-heavy session, Amit takes you through real-world scenarios of bad indexing designs and how they can be rectified to improve performance. Focus remains on clustered and non-clustered indexes and the esoteric combinations of them. If you think you know everything about indexes, think again! #TEDBI406

Deep Dive into XQuery and XML in Microsoft SQL Server: Common Problems and Best Practice Solutions

Michael Rys — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 20:06:41 GMT

Have you ever written an XQuery against the XML data type and had performance issues? Have you ever wondered how to improve performance of your XML-based application? In this presentation, we analyze commonly encountered query patterns and performance issues and provide best practices and improved queries that can improve performance up to an order of magnitude. We provide guidance on how to best store XML inside the database (relational vs. as XML datatype, with or without a schema, which XML Index should I use?) and provide performance tips when using XQueries and FOR XML queries. In addition, we give a quick preview of a new XML Indexing option that we have been developing for one of our premier banking ISVs which will be productized in a future release. #TEDBI404

TechEd North America 2012 Sessions

Windows PowerShell Crash Course

Windows Azure Virtual Machines and Virtual Networks

The 12 Reasons to Love Microsoft SQL Server 2012 (repeated from 6/11 at 1:15pm)

Scott Guthrie: Meet the New Windows Azure

Keynote - Antoine Leblond: Windows 8

Windows 8: DEMOS (repeated from 6/13 at 1:30pm)

How to (un)Destroy Your Active Directory: Reloaded

Advanced Persistent Threats (APT): Understanding the New Era of Attacks! (repeated from 6/11 at 3pm)

Jason Zander Unplugged

What's New in Active Directory in Windows Server 2012 (repeated from 6/12 at 3:15pm)

Cluster Shared Volumes Reborn in Windows Server 2012: Deep Dive

Group Policy Reporting and Analysis with Windows PowerShell

Advanced Automation Using Windows PowerShell 3.0

Guest Clustering and VM Monitoring in Windows Server 2012

Continuously Available File Server: Under the Hood

Building a Microsoft Private Cloud with HP

Migrating Virtual Environments to Hyper-V: The Easy Way

Using the Windows Server 2012 Server Manager for Remote and Multi-Server Management

Windows Server 2012 File and Storage Services Management

Networking for Hybrid Cloud: BranchCache and Cross Premise Connectivity

What's New with Internet Information Services (IIS) 8: Performance, Scalability, and Security

What's New with Internet Information Services (IIS) 8: Open Web Platform for Cloud

How to Increase SQL Availability and Performance Using Window Server 2012 SMB 3.0 Solutions

Architecting Private Clouds Using Windows Server 2012

The Path to Continuous Availability with Windows Server 2012

Windows Server 2012 Storage Solutions: Vast Storage Capabilities for Everyone

Windows Server 2012: A Techie’s Insight into the Hot New Features

DNSSEC Deployment with Windows Server 2012

Building a Highly Available Failover Cluster Solution with Windows Server 2012 from the Ground UP

Deploying Private Clouds (Lessons Learned from the Windows Server 2012 TAP)

Update Management in Windows Server 2012: Revealing Cluster-Aware Updating and the New Generation of WSUS

Understanding and Deploying Hosted Private Cloud: Concepts and Implementation

Best Practices and Lessons Learned: Private Cloud Deployment in the Enterprise

Becoming the Next Private Cloud Expert in Your Organization

Building a Private Cloud in 75 Minutes

Clouds and Your Organization: A (Former) Professional Economist's View for IT Pros

Windows Server 2012 File System Enhancements: Redefining File Storage

Windows Server 2012 NIC Teaming and Multichannel Solutions

The Network Files, Case #53: Diagnosing Diseases of DNS

IPv6: (Hard)Core Networking Services

Extending Applications to Everywhere! Your Guide to Securing RDS RemoteApps for the Internet

Windows Server 2012: Cluster-in-a-Box, RDMA, and More

Deploying Windows Server 2012: From Bare Metal, Server Core, Minimal Server Interface, and More

Standards Support and Interoperability in Windows Server 2012: Storage, Networking, and Management

Windows Server 2012 IP Address Management

Inside Windows Server 2012 Multi-Server Management Capabilities

Build an Enterprise-Level Storage Infrastructure for Small and Midsize Businesses

Windows Server 2012 Networking Performance and Management

Windows Server 2012 High-Performance, Highly-Available Storage Using SMB

Windows Server 2012 DirectAccess: How to Quickly and Easily Deploy Your Next Generation Remote Access Experience

Building Hosted Public and Private Clouds Using Windows Server 2012

Windows Server 2012 + Advanced Storage Solutions = Datacenter Elevation

Accelerating the Power of the Cloud with Microsoft Private Cloud Fast Track and EMC Infrastructure

Dell Windows Server 2012 Greenfield Data Design – Hosted Service / Private Cloud

Introduction to the Microsoft Private Cloud

Best Practices for Designing and Consolidating Group Policy for Performance and Security

Windows Server 2012 Overview

Messaging and Collaboration Scenarios with Windows Small Business Server

Overview of Windows MultiPoint Server

Microsoft Private Cloud Fast Track: The Next Generation of Private Cloud Reference Architecture

Top OS Deployment Issues with Answers from Experts

Turn PowerShell Commands into Reusable CLI and GUI Tools

PowerShell Remoting in Depth

App Compat for Nerds: Understanding, Troubleshooting, and Fixing Busted Apps

Windows 8: What’s New in App Compat Tools

Windows 8: Image Validation and Improvement Scenarios with the Windows ADK

Client Management Scenarios in the Windows 8 Timeframe

Windows Intune: Equipping the Enterprise to Manage the Consumerization of IT

Windows 8: Windows To Go Overview

Deploying Windows 8 with the Microsoft Deployment Toolkit (MDT)

What's New in Microsoft Diagnostics and Recovery Toolset 8 (DaRT 8)

Getting the Most Out of the Power of Group Policy

Microsoft BitLocker Administration and Monitoring 2.0: What's New?

Windows Intune: Cloud Based PC Management (Technical Overview)

Windows Intune for the Enterprise

Five Infrastructure Changes That Will Boost Performance for the Windows Client

Raiders of the Elevated Token: Understanding User Account Control and Session Isolation

IPv6 Bootcamp: Get Up to Speed Quickly

Troubleshooting Windows 7 Deployments